CloudBolt vs. IBM Cloudability

Creates dynamic groups and flexible Active Directory configurations. Improves our automation capabilities. Helps us to automate a part of our Active Directory administration process. Helps us to automate the process of registration and cleaning the computer accounts with Active Directory. Helps us to improve the reliability of registration to mitigate failures like retry logic and post validation checks.

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Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.

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• Create configuration with Microsoft endpoints.
• Support complex globally distributed multi-domains.
• Create and remove dynamic OU.
• Allows for static text in combination with dynamic content.

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• It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.

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• Support could be improved on a >tier 1 level
• Logging could be more descriptive/specific
• Stability of the actual server

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• It would be good to see if it offers integrations with wide variety of tools like Service NOW, MS Teams, DataDog, Slack and also with cloud native Notification services like SNS etc.
• It would be great if Apptio cloudability provides comprehensive documentation and training
• There is scope for improvement on Enhanced cost optimization Algorithms.

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We decided to build our own home-grown FinOps tool, but the results of the proof of concept were very promising.

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Very strong tool, nearly as clunky as older tools like CloudCheckr and much more fully featured than newer tools like Pileus. It's easy to get started with drilling into data for experienced FinOps users; others end users have a learning curve, but I don't think that's specific to Apptio Cloudability. The biggest drawback I find is the tool is buggier than others (e.g. CloudHealth), and constantly having to refresh a browser makes for a poor user experience.

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Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years

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Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume

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While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.

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Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.

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Within months

We honestly haven't looked into much. We've been using CloudBolt [Software] for a long, long time. I think we briefly looked into Morpheus but figured it was too much effort to lift everything, communicate it, etc. We selected CloudBolt [Software] because, at the time (and still do), they served our very specific case. We also liked the ability to customize certain aspects of the deployments - that enabled our "power users" to really tweak things just right for their departmental tasks.

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I like IBM Cloudability compared to IBM SPSS Statistics because I think SPSS is a bit outdated. In my opinion, IBM Cloudability is more modern and helps present data better than SPSS could. Compared to Microsoft 365, I would say they are about even. One thing I like about Microsoft 365 compared to IBM Cloudability is data manipulation is a bit easier with formulas which I can't say I have been able to do with IBM Cloudability.

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Works as designed

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• We have invested countless man hours to troubleshooting and being support's QA.
• Most of our teams have saved an invaluable amount of time by being able to automate their deployments.
• After the initial time you spend [understanding] all the nuances, the configuring of groups, permissions, etc., does make administering it easier.

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• Apptio Cloudability has enabled us to charge back 100% of our cloud spend to our business users and on an automated basis through the use of ApptioOne
• Apptio Cloudability's transparency and metrics have enabled us to save millions of dollars in cloud spend across our user base.

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