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IBM Cloudability

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What is IBM Cloudability?

IBM Cloudability 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.

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Product Details

What is IBM Cloudability?

IBM Cloudability 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 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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IBM Cloudability Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Cloudability 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.

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services are common alternatives for IBM Cloudability.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of IBM Cloudability are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Full FinOps solution, that won't break the bank

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 18, 2025
DJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudability
2 years of experience
It is very malleable so I like how easily custom views can be created for service owners to view specific costs of items of interest to them. It is useful how easily you can segregate/filter resources from each other. There is an associated administrative overhead, particularly when adding new users to the system, this is maybe more of a shortcoming from my organization, rather than the product itself though.

IBM Cloudability

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 07, 2024
RE
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudability
3 years of experience
Providing savings plan recommendations and reserved instance recommendations. The ability to create multiple views and assign to users allows for easy access to product specific reporting. IBM Cloudablility also provides great insight to saving generated by the team over time. We are able to provide management with detailed reports that highlight the benefit of the tool.

A good tool to manage cloud cost

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 03, 2024
XL
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudability
2 years of experience
It is useful in the cost management and helps our decision making. It can increase operational efficiency.
But it needs to improve the accuracy of its recommendations provided to the users.

IBM Cloudability

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 06, 2024
TV
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudability
1 year of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
IBM Cloudability is really well suited to companies that need to look at trends in their cloud spend on a day to day basis. IBM Cloudability (alone) is not ideal for beautiful and complex visualizations.

IBM Cloudability

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 27, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloudability
1 year of experience
IBM Cloudability has been important to how we manage budget data at the [...]. It has allowed for us to share budget data with other Directors who may not understand the intricacies of Budget Management. However, it only allows for data to be seen at a certain point in time, so for live data it would not be the best option.
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