IBM Cloudability Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Apptio, an IBM Company

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IBM Cloudability Community

Languages Supported

English, Japanese

Product Description

Cloudability offers cloud cost managment, optimization and efficiency tools. It is designed to collect and store all user's cloud bills and AWS usage data, then organizes it into simple, customizable reports users can share.

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Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

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IBM Cloudability Demo - Curated Multi-Cloud FinOps Dashboard

Enable teams to continuously improve the economics of running cloud with intelligent mappings, dynamic reports, dashboards and recommendations.

Industry leading ML backed proactive rightsizing and commitment recommendations with engineering tasks, multiple outcome options, and details to justify them.

Automation of rightsizing recommendations and throttling for downtime to maximize resource optimization, minimize effort and increase value from cloud investments.

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Tamas G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/13/2025

"A great tool for multi cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

I enjoy the quick dashboards, fast reporting on the large dataset and the flexibility on managing business context with normalized tagging, business maps and tagging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

reporting on the disjointed datasets only possible in Apptio BI, which is slow and have certain limitations on presentation as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Tamas,

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with IBM Cloudability. We're committed to providing efficient and flexible tools for managing cloud costs, and we appreciate your feedback on areas for improvement. We'll take your concerns about reporting on disjointed datasets into consideration as we work to enhance our platform.

Thank you!

Brian T.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2024

"Excellent Finops Product"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Solid product that ingests all of the relevant data from our cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). and provides transparency and savings insights across multiple levers for each. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Reporting is not great for reporting on containers, escpecially for AWS. We would like to get better information for usage and potential savings as well. This has improved over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides the best reporting solution by ingesting the several million rows of data each month. Gives us insights on how to best perform finops - savings for multiple opportunities, anything from undersubscribed CPU/storage, unused instances, Allows us to customize the reporting to target specific focus areas: tagging, reserved instances, efficiencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Brian!

We're glad to hear that IBM Cloudability is providing you with valuable insights and transparency across multiple cloud providers. We appreciate your feedback on the reporting for containers and AWS, and we are continuously working to improve in those areas.

We would like to invite you to join other Apptio customers around the globe by interacting in our IBM Community, an exclusive online forum made up of Apptio and IBM customers, Partners, and Employees. It’s a great place to learn, connect, share and grow together. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/apptio/home

User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

Jamie C.

IT Resources Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/6/2024

"Financial Tool for Engineers"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

It is easy to forget with my finance background that engineers don't speak the same language. I love that Cloudability allows for the reporting of both financial and usage metrics so we can introduce the engineers to the finance side. I also appreciate how everything I need the engineers to look at and consider resides in one tool and also allows for self-serivce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

I do wish that views didn't have to be created based on Account ID or Name to filter down all of the tool (Anomaly and Rightsizing). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Jamie!

We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you!

Also, user groups are a great way to connect. User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

mirhaz p.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/13/2025

"Best Finops tool"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The dashboarding is very clear and intuitive, and the rightsizing feature has saved us lots of money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Anomaly detection needs to be more real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Mirhaz,

Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you.

Also, have you heard about our user groups? User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

Verified User in Utilities

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/13/2025

"Improved insight into cloud spend and budgeting"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The way the UI presents the information allowing for actionable results. Ease of use and the ability to use business metrics to group and sort spend. Powerful reporting and dashboarding capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The cost of the solution can be prohibitive and the budgeting and planning elements not being able to be dashboarded in the essentials package. K8s integration is good but is missing deeper integration with K8s which hopefully the recent Kubecost acquisition will help improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pawel B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/13/2025

"Great to get Cloud spend mapped to business value and share insights with FinOps stakeholders"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Intuitive to use and flexible to generate helpful insigths Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Cost allocation is not very sophisticated, I would like richase spend-based rules to be included Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Pawel,

We're glad to hear that you find IBM Cloudability intuitive and flexible for generating insights. We appreciate your feedback about cost allocation and will take it into consideration for future improvements.

Kim D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"AA with CLDY"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The way we can make cloud visible and allocate costs to our end users! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

How some of the products are disjointed. The way we allocate costs in Total Costs but have to toggle to Cloudability to realize other reports and dashboard data. Front end application users should not have to learn how to toggle these systems. We would like to use Rightsizing and other features but does not seem to work well withthe data we have in Total Cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.