IBM Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud. Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management - the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud. Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems so that the user can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling teams to: - Fully and accurately allocate cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business. - Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan for your cloud. - Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing and commitment recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments. - Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives. -Allocate shared costs, specialized technology and labor along with vendors to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud.