--- title: IBM Cloudability Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Cloudability Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 202 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Cloudability works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 202 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # IBM Cloudability Reviews **Vendor:** Apptio, an IBM Company **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 202 ## About IBM Cloudability IBM Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of FinOps—the cultural practice and operational process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of cloud and related costs. Its enterprise-grade FinOps features enable IT, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud, AI and Kubernetes costs and communicate the business value of these investments. Cloudability normalizes and structures billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems. Its robust set of capabilities enable teams to: • Fully allocate cloud spend, including containers and AI related costs, and support charges—enabling chargeback across the business and continuous improvements to cloud unit economics • Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan • Automatically optimize cloud costs via industry-leading rightsizing and commitment recommendations, allowing you to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments • Make decisions with speed and confidence, powered by team ownership of cloud spend • Allocate shared costs, like specialized technology, labor and vendors, to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud • Support FinOps organizations in Federal agencies via FedRAMP authorized IBM Cloudability for US Federal • Enable Managed Services Providers to ingest, structure, and customize billing data via IBM Cloudability MSP Cloudability enables practitioners with the capabilities they need to drive FinOps forward— with financial accountability, optimized cloud spend and a roadmap for FinOps maturity. With over 10 years of accumulated expertise and innovation, Cloudability is the category pioneer and market leader dedicated to helping you excel at FinOps. ## IBM Cloudability Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users highlight the **ease of use** of IBM Cloudability, simplifying dashboard creation and improving collaboration in data visualization. (44 reviews) - Users appreciate the **cost visibility** IBM Cloudability provides, aiding in effective financial management across multiple clouds. (37 reviews) - Users value the **strong chargeback and flexible reporting features** of IBM Cloudability, enhancing accountability and decision-making. (33 reviews) - Users appreciate the **reporting feature** of IBM Cloudability for its efficiency in delivering actionable insights and visibility. (33 reviews) - Users value **cost visibility** in their multi-cloud environments, enhancing accountability and supporting their FinOps initiatives. (30 reviews) - Users appreciate the **customizable dashboards** of IBM Cloudability, enhancing cloud usage monitoring and cost analysis. (27 reviews) - Data Centralization (24 reviews) - Visibility (23 reviews) - Dashboards (21 reviews) - User Interface (21 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report **missing features** in IBM Cloudability, particularly with limited rightsizing recommendations and lack of comprehensive cost analysis. (20 reviews) - Users find the **cost management capabilities lacking** due to incomplete data and limited allocation options. (15 reviews) - Users find the **complexity of the interface** a challenge, making deeper analysis more difficult than expected. (14 reviews) - Users struggle with **inadequate reporting** due to disjointed datasets and performance issues affecting their experience. (12 reviews) - Users experience **integration issues** with IBM Cloudability, particularly with AWS focus and Azure compatibility challenges. (12 reviews) - Users find **reporting cumbersome** , desiring improvements in customization and enhanced analytics capabilities for better insights. (12 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** when processing large datasets and generating reports, impacting efficiency during demonstrations. (12 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (11 reviews) - Difficulty (10 reviews) - User Interface (10 reviews) ## IBM Cloudability Reviews ### 1. Optimizations insights is useful, but no always achievable depending on application architecture. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** optimization insights and visuals. Options for reporting is useful as well. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** not aways achieveable dur to app architectures. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** reducing spend where possible. **Official Response from Janie Carothers:** > Hi! Thank you for your feedback. We are glad to hear that IBM Cloudability has been helpful to you! Could you give us some more feedback on what you dislike? We're committed to making our customers wildly successful and would love to hear more! Apptio_Customer_Feedback@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com ### 2. Could spend control **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Ease of use, featrures, reporting and insights **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** performance issues , reporting ui and delayed feature rollout **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping managing cloud spend **Official Response from Janie Carothers:** > We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you! We appreciate the feedback on performance and features and will share that with our product team. Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer! ### 3. Easy to use, but clunky at times **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cloudability is great. There are a few things I find to be clunky, but overall its a great product. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Adding new users to Cloudability is a pain. And our new users do not receive a welcome email due to us using SSO **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudability is helping us implement showback and eventually chargeback. Cloudability makes it easy for us to show users how much they are using/spending. ### 4. A good tool to analyze cloud costs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cloudability has a clean interface and is easy to use. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** I believe that Cloudability can offer much more value by providing more functionalities through its API, such as custom data extraction, enabling Service Accounts for administrative functions that should not depend on a specific user's ApiKey. I also think there are opportunities for improvement in the Business Mappings interface. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Global overview of costs across different cloud providers. ### 5. Good application to manage multi-cloud CSP cost and usage data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It can efficiently handle multi-cloud cost and usage data from different CSP vendors. Provides customizations in Business metrics and Business dimensions. Provides good visualization of data and easy to prepare reports and dashboards. Easy to manage views, users and access adminstration. Easy to connect CSP accounts and manage vendor credentials. Good rightsizing recommendations provided. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Report can have only 10 columns. We have raised the change request to make it 20 columns but it never happened. When you export a report, the customized business metrics colum names do not appear which is annoying as we have to manually update the column name in the excel report each time. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can access the consolidated data from different CSP vendors at one place. It gives us our total mutiple CSP cost and usage data on a desired selected frequency e.g. daily, weekly etc. ### 6. A good FinOps tool for cost optimization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It is a simple looking tool, that has a great variaty of options, and provides accurate view on public cloud costs, and also provides recommendations for rightsizings, Savings Plans, and Reservations. Also it is useful for getting view of cost allocation for Containers. It is promoting new features regularely **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The forecasting feature is limited, as it does not show forecasts per accounts, but only per services **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to have better visibility on alerting when some accounts have problems (missing credentials, API expired) Currently a lot of the stuff has to be done manually. In general more automation is required ### 7. Cloud spend analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gigi G. | Partner Sales, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Insights into mulitplatform CSP spend and analysis output **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** UI could be improved to support learning curve of platform quickly and better adoption **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apptio Cloudability allows businesses to allocate cloud costs to business units to support chargebacks, accountability, and project justification ### 8. Solid tool, horrible API **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cost insights on cloud resources provide a lot of useful information. Anomaly detection is helpful for pinpointing unexpected changes and issues in the cloud environment. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The cloud account onboarding process and the API is painful to deal with. While the documentation is very good, the experience of interacting with the API is horrendous. Onboarding accounts is a roll of the dice to see if the account is going to be visbile within Cloudability after being created in the Organization (AWS) with many of them failing to be discovered within 15 minutes, even after re-discovering the master account to trigger an update (the docs say to wait at most 5 minutes). **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing cloud resource usage pertaining to cost and detecting anomalous behavior within the charges. Being able to see a breakdown by service allows us to see where most of the money is going. **Official Response from Lauren Rappold:** > Hi Matt, Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We strive to make our customers wildly successful, and we’re sorry to hear that we missed the mark here. We have taken your feedback on board, and we will strive to make improvements accordingly. To further show our deepest apologies and gratitude, would you please consider emailing us at customerfeedback@apptio.com to discuss this further? Kind regards, Apptio Team ### 9. A successful POC that met many needs for FinOps practicioners **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** I enjoyed the reporting tools and the use of unit economics within Cloudability. The multiple features from rightsizing, forecasting and anomaly detection were all useful for finops practicioners. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** I don't like that they charge seperately for the TotalCost module, that should be included in the base platform. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to mature the finops practice at our company by providing a one stop shop for all our cloud cost management and spend. Identify insights for savings opportunities as well. ### 10. Class Apart **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Multi cloud visibility is probably the best part **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Need to improve upon Serverless and container functionality **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud cost forcasting is helping with aligning the resources in the most efficient way ### 11. Cloudability Helps our Teamwith most of FinOPs Necessity **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renato J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** We really liked the ease of showing costs at various levels for the company through the views We also like the weekly cadences with our TAM, it helps a lot to solve the team's doubts on a weekly basis. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The disadvantages of Cloudability are the small amount of graphics enabled, the fact that you cannot adjust simple things on the dashboard such as changing the color of the graphics, having a search field within the widget itself. In the delay to implement features that we requested **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudability helps us to give cost visibility to BV bank, it helps to solve the problem of lack of cost visibility in cloud.We believe that this has not yet helped the business to grow, as the bank still needs to evolve finOPs maturity in other processes ### 12. Trust Partner and Proven Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** scott M. | Sales Executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Name recognition, easy to sell to our customers. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** N/A generally very satisfied and will continue to sell the product. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping support FinOps teams with Cost Analysis and Optimization ### 13. Amazing software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Has allowed extensive visbility on spending across the firm, enabling mass savings and cost cutting to take place **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** It took me a while to get used to the softwware **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving previously not having as much visibility on costs / spending. We now track this with great ease and have utilized internal resources to cut costs and save big ### 14. Super easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giovanna P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cloudability is a great tool that offers a friendly user experience, combining simplicity with efficiency. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to navigate and utilize, allowing users to effortlessly manage their cloud resources. Additionally, the tool's speed is nice, providing real-time data and insights without any noticeable delay. The recommendations for cost optimization are precise. Overall, Cloudability is a 4 star product. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** It would be beneficial if Cloudability could introduce a more user-friendly approach to dashboard governance, enabling seamless collaboration among team members, same goes for subscribing to reports. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudability has enhanced my understanding of my AWS spending and helped me optimize my cloud usage. It provides clear insights into my spending patterns and highlights areas where I can improve efficiency. ### 15. Additional visibility into cloud expenses helps optimize usage. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farhad S. | Cloud Infrastructure Head, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Creating visuals is easy which helps for providing reports to upper management. So far I'm quite happy with the responsiveness of the customer support teams. I like the ease with which I can share filtered reports and dashboards with others. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Feature parity across the 4 major clouds is still not the same. AWS support is excellent which is great for us but the other clouds seem a little lagging in feature parity. Anomaly detection is a hit or miss - there are quite a few false positives. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce our cloud footprints. Identify areas in cloud spending that are ballooning out of control. Take appropriate counter measures such as limiting use, moving the application(s) to our DCs, etc. ### 16. Cloud ability finops tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** very good cloud cost tool for very large organization for complex needs **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** cost of the tool is very expensive for large consumers 1% of cloud spen **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is helping allocate cost for cloub compustion for mulitaple business units ### 17. Apptio Cloudability provides all the actional insights into cloud spend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna E. | Sr Manager Database Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** 1st one is about actionable insights into cloudability The insights are scheduled and automated These insights are as granular as needed The personalized dashboards **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** At first, as an outsider of the FinOps team, it took additional time for me to get accustomed to restricted access. however by collaborating with FinOps team and interacting more often with the tool, I've understood the product well and found it useful for the firm and interesting for me. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transparency Accountablity near real time analysis cloud spend reporting cost optimization TCO analysis for operations team Comparison between similar services made eaiser ### 18. Apptio Cloudability Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** The ability to create reports and analysis from multiple sources of data uploaded in Apptio. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** It lacks the ablitiy to automate export of Cloudability reports. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a vital tool that sloves issues with manging and analyzing cloud cost. ### 19. Helpful software that brings together a lot of different features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cloudability makes it easy to find the data you're looking for, whether its adhoc or a recurring report. Thats often the place I go to find interesting trends or need to answer a quick question from an executive. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The data and reports that are available are mostly directly from the cost and usage report. There isn't a lot of customization of metrics allowed. It would be great to apply additional logic to results to create standard metrics for our use cases. For now, I need to use the api. Bring it out of cloudability, and customize there. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've identified growing trends within our spend in the cloud, and allowed us to keep spending under control using this discovery. The savings has opened up our options for investing in other areas this year and beyond. ### 20. Good user experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** single pane of glass for insights on cloud spend **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Clunky integration with on-prem and cloud **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Cloud spend insights ### 21. Cost and usage governance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cost and usage givernance is very intuitive **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** On-boarding user accounts is difficult especially Azure **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps control costs and show back ### 22. Apptio Cloudability SaaS effectively helps us optimize our software license subscription & SaaS cost **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** 1. Apptio Cloudability SaaS is a cloud-based software spend management platform which grants us visibility on the SaaS costs of our project. 2. It has various control management & SaaS procurement functionalities that aligns suitably with our enterprise applications. 3. With its expense recommendations, we can consolidate the pricing models of different SaaS providers and identify areas where expenses are unnecessary. 4. This also helps with knowing the overall IT expenditures and effectively optimizing them based on our dynamic use cases. 5. All data-driven investment models can be quickly articulated from its SaaS cost portfolio & we give brief presentations about our business approaches and cost reduction strategies to our clients. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** We don't find anything noteworthy to be mentioned as a dislikable feature in Apptio services. All SaaS consumption reports are generated with just a few clicks. We can track them easily in its intuitive observability & monitoring console. Spend forecast and license renewal updates are also accurate for SaaS management. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Apptio Cloudabilty SaaS aids us with our software application portfolio and spend management. 2. It quickly identifies various budget drains, such as least utilized software applications, unused services and duplicate applications, and we decommission those applications. 3. Each user is mapped to their application requirements, usage and associated license cost by Apptio spend management console, so there is excellent categorization & transparency. 4. All SaaS subscriptions are tracked under a single pane of glass &its Application Consolidation feature is remarkable for our end-user audits. 5. We can also enable automatic alert notifications with a customizable date before license expiration. This helps us prevent software unavailability & keep the renewal date under observation. ### 23. Helps me to manage cloud cost more effeciently **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tanzeem M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It is well integrated with AWS cloud csst **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** It needs to produce more tutorial for the users **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using view we can group accounts and get a consolidated expense for each division. ### 24. Pretty good, but not the best **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** The product is relatively easy to use for basic use cases. The on-boarding team is thorough and was able to teach even senior FinOps individuals new approaches to maintaining healthy Cloud costs. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Some of the dashboarding features do not work well. The Cloudability product is always described as being deprecated in favor of the "new product". Simple things need to be adjusted on a monthly basis and cannot be auto-updated as competitor products easily handle. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudability enables our team to analyze cloud usage and consumption very quickly. This information is not as easily surfaced quickly in AWS. We can identify fast mechanisms to instantly reduce our cloud costs should it be necessary. We are now under budget. ### 25. Very helpful to automate costs tracking **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** The Cloudability API is great, it allow us to run reports passing customized "dimensions" that are used to track specific AWS tags, on this way we have a lot of granularity to isolate charges, at project and domain level. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Sometimes the different Costs available for very specific AWS services are hard to be understand, I would say this is more related about how the charges are performed at AWS account level. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The management of costs from multiple AWS accounts at enterpise level, having all the costs consolidated and also having access to the discounts at AWS enterprise level is very helpful, discounts are not tracked properly or they do not appear at all using the individual AWS account billing reports. ### 26. Great usage and customization for those familiar with the source data. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick M. | Director, Commercial Strategy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It has a lot of customization that can meet the needs of many users. For those not familiar with the source data it might be confusing but having an admin who understands the data this provides an amazing amount of customization. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The customization can be a double edged sword where you end up with so much customized reports people aren't sure of where to go. I think having a standard set of reports set up as a best practice and use the one off's for specific use cases not covered by the standard reports and if used enough they convert to a standard report. If this process is not setup there will be confusion. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gaining visibility into costs incurred on our behalf as well as user reports to see what users are using which services that we can target. Overall cost management as well as prioritization for cross sells. ### 27. Apptio Cloudability review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish R. | Deputy Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It is a cost effective management tool with granular filters which helps us to track our cloud spending and plan budget for cloud services. The dashboards and reports are also easier to manage as there are good metrices available to drill down the cost. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Overall it's a good product but sometimes it is very difficult for us customize some dashboard and reports view. And sometimes it is also difficult to export the reports. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool has helped us to to analyse the spendings on cloud and incorporate the findings for a client management. It has helped us to forecast cost of services and allocate budget for the projects and complete it in cost effective manner. ### 28. Very Good tool and easy to be tracking the resources reports based tags,accounts and dimensions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh Reddy n. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** good fetures for Cost Visibility,Budget Management,Cost Allocation,Resource Tagging,Accounts, Dimensions based reports,Data integaration and visalization ,Cloudability SaaS, Cloudability Savings Automation for apptio **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Data Accuracy,Limited Recommendations, Integation challanges, Complexity, Private Cloud features,Support and Updates **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apptio Cloudability solving the probelme to Lack of Cost Visibility and Control,Cloud Cost Overruns and Overspending, Inaccurate Cost Allocation,Budget Management Challenges,Inefficient Resource Usage,Multi-Cloud Complexity and Cloud Governance. ### 29. All-in-one tool for cost visibility **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** The ease of connecting aws accounts to the tool and getting it up and running as well as the comprehensive reporting makes Cloudabiltiy a great cost management tool. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Can tend to be slow at times and frequent outages. Also, a bit of a learning curve to "learn" the names of values and dimensions to really get the most out of the tool. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to report granularly on multi-cloud costs and create custom mappings to relate costs how we want it which in turn helps us understand who to contact when costs are not as expected. ### 30. Your Month So far report **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert R. | ADM/CISM, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** I love how I get a detailed Monthly summary with spend, percentage over prior month and top 7 spends **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** A lot of emails but it's ok. I don't have any majore disclikes about the product. It's straightforward **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get to see what is going on with our useage ### 31. Best software for cloud cost management and optimization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravanan K. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Apptio cloudability is user friendly in case of the finanacial management that monitors the cloud computing related costs. It's very helpful for a budget cloud management with cost effective. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Few suggestions like to reduce the complexity more as much as possible but I realize that is a challenge for all the products we are using. But comparatively it is user friendly than the other softwares in the market **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apptio cloudability mainly solves the financial management for the cloud in a user friendly way and also helps in deriving the better business outcomes. It's also helps more across cloud environments. ### 32. Cloudability User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Cloudability is easy to learn and makes it easy to build custom dashboards for any billing data you need. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Limited on how to organize large amounts of data. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gathering large amounts of data through GCP and Azure then formatting it in an easy to digest way. ### 33. Its great tool to see the total cloud cost for your enterpise and do more to that data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** I love the user experience and design of this tool. Additionally, I love the various sub tool, like rightsizing and account group. Its a great way to see the overall spend for your cloud cost and can prepare the reports to see the various dimension to the cost. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** May need more detailed documentation about the various tools it has **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us in bringing the cloud cost from various Cloud Service Providers and using various reports to analyze the data and make business decisions based on that. ### 34. Flexibility, reliable and quick financial management tool. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nithya V. | Assistant Vice President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Automated, optimized solution for financial decisions based on data. Reliable software of the era. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Grant Access issues when multiple users are to be onboarded in the tool at same time. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data driven decisions are made quicker and life of taking quicker action is viable now a days. ### 35. Apptio Cloudability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** I like the customizable dashboards to view pricing data. My team is able to see how much EC2 spending is happening on a monthl basis and this enables our business to allocate resources in the cloud. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** There is a large amount of data that takes a long time to process for reports. There are some dashboards that have years of spend data and it can take a long time to download these files. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloudability allows for quick insights into where the company is spending and services that can reduce costs. We are able to see where the team is spending and try to reduce costs in those areas ### 36. So far okay product. Working on exploring more **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srilekha S. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** This is the first tool to we started to migrate some applications on premise to cloud for a friend's company. It enables all the teams across the organisation to work together. Easy to get the insights in dashboard. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Pricing is slightly costlier since we are using the product for a startup. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily handling of data online and dashboard to get insights of the data. ### 37. good aggregator to tack multiple MPA with required details **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Easy to use, it imports all required info from AWS good enough to build required reports and get required details **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** isn't easy to setup to get correct categories, tags to generate required reports. this config part isn't intuitive, but when it;s done all works ok **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** gen and track all AWS services and resources , get reports for all ec2, EBS and etc that can be optimized to lower TOC with recommendations ### 38. Apptio reduces cloud expenses **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** veeramalli b. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Apptio Cloudability is reduce cloud expenses its a good tool we can see all the detailed information to clients **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Apptio Cloudability if less members are using then it is not useful much **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apptio Cloudability is to solve several key problems related to cloud cost management and optimization. ### 39. Apptio cloudability review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SridharRajan S. | Senior Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Single platform for managing cost for multiple cloud, Reports are cristal clear with real time visibility, automated cost optomizing was very useful and cost effective. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Over all it's a good application not much negative points was there, it's very good cost effective application, it can be recommended to others to manage the cloud usage and cost management. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help us to effectively utilise the cloud space and help us to save the cost spends fot the cloud space usage ### 40. Its a great product to know the public cloud cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Apptio Cloudability has various great features like tags and mapping and vendor credentials to see the advanced features and rightsizing. This is a great tool to know the public cloud cost. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Nothing in particular. Just one issue: I don't see a way to send emails to the various report and dashboards. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is helping us to provide the public cloud cost and also helps in knowing the advanced features and rightsizing. It also organize the accounts based on tags & Labels and Account groups. ### 41. We are using this in our company for cloud cost advisor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijayakumar M. | DevOps Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** It's easy to understand reports , it gives insight about the cloud spends to optimise cost **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** None, the tool is useful and no dislikes **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It simplify the management and overview of cost ### 42. Great collection of features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Great tool for helping us track costs based on tags, and environment roles across our wide customer base. We use it for our cost management and profitability and reporting. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** The interface could do with some bringing together - but generally it flows and is intuitive. It'd be great if configuration scripts could better configure cost-exports (ie configure cost reporting within AWS for example) by script. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great tool for helping us track costs based on tags, and environment roles across our wide customer base. We use it for our cost management and profitability and reporting. ### 43. Automating the Data Process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayakumar J. | Senior QA Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** End to end encryption. Providing virtual and physical solutions. It improves visibility, performance, optimisation, governance and more across cloud environments **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** There are dislikes on Apptio Cloudability and there is nothing to enclose on the dislikes **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in solving many business needs and providing end to end encryption of my data so that data will be safe. Its a flexible cloud cost management and optimising tool. ### 44. apptio for azure cloud costing report **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** able to create costing based on tags for each project **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** managing multiple subscriptions. global setting for all subscriptions **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** provide a reporting platform for users to see their own costing. We are using cost center tag so it will only be as accurate as our tagging of the resources. ### 45. G2 an user-friendly platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas V. | Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Best features as follows. 1.Apptio Cloudability 2.Cost Allocation and Chargeback 3.Cost Optimization 4.Budget Management 5.Cost Forecasting 6.Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs) Management 7.Rightsizing Recommendations 8.Customizable Reporting 9.Integration and API 10.Security and Compliance **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** its a userfriendly platform without much constriants **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lack of Cost Visibility,Overwhelming Cloud Expenses,Difficulty in Cost Allocation,Lack of Cost Optimization Insights, Budget Management Challenges,Difficulty in Forecasting Cloud Costs ### 46. Apptio Cloudability - Cloud management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vaishnavi r. | Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Very easy for managing multiple public clouds using single app. A unique app that helps tech people to manage cost for using services in cloud **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** May be the user interface. But will get used to it once the app is regularly used. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to calculate cost of using cloud services and choose right one based on my requirements ### 47. Cloudability - A tool to get granular insights on your costing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** I have used many tools to generate cost reports, but Cloudability stands apart as it gave me per-client costing hosted in the same infra. Now I know my profit margins per client instantly. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** I would say there is scope to improve the support ticketing system. Once you log a ticket, you can not see it again. The ticketing tool is not attached to SSO and asks username and password, but my original account is with SSO. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides per-client cost tracking hosted in the same infra. ### 48. Good service & reliable for long time. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sivasankaran P. | Assistant Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** User friendly, Good customer service and most importantly they deliver what has been promised. Overall good experience. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** Nothing as such. Continue the good work. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was spending extra money for unnecessary usage of cloud server which I didn't notice for long time. With the help of apptio I could bring the cost down by cutting out unnecessary usage of the same. ### 49. Finance Manager at Hashicorp focusing on cloud computing spend and and resource utilization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** Apptio consolidates all of our cloud computing cost data into one system that allows us to view by sub account, service, vendor and other parameters that are useful **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** A better UI/UX would be helpful for the reports themselves. The organization of the data is not intuitive. Also it is difficult to create filters for multiple accounts. **What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to see cost growth over time in our current production environment. It also allows us to export monthly cost data that is used to accrue cloud costs. ### 50. Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nader S. | Quality Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?** More storage space and have more information and data **What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?** This text seems to be a feedback or suggestion. 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