IBM Cloudability Feature

True Cost Explorer

Visually explore your cost across clouds

Cloud provider billing data is complex, involving thousands of services and millions of lines every month. Trying to analyze and summarize information is extremely tedious, requiring complex spreadsheet manipulations and an advanced degree in billing file terminology.

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Discover why IBM Cloudability was positioned furthest in vision and highest in execution on the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools.​
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“IBM provides the most complete full-stack CCMO solution,” according to the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024.

Visualize correlations between spend and usage dimensions

True Cost Explorer provides an intuitive way to visually explore your cloud cost and usage data, so that even if you are not familiar with the intricacies of cloud billing, you can quickly correlate your usage and spend to the data dimensions that are relevant to you, such as business units, applications and teams.

Instantly switch between the data you want to view

Interactively change the dimensions so you are effectively using a visual pivot table, all from within IBM Cloudability. Your data is always up to date and reflects discounts, credits and amortization.

Focus on the data that's important

True Cost explorer integrates our powerful Views capability to restrict the data to a particular department or team. Now you can build further constraints around the data so your users can focus on what’s important and teams are empowered to make decisions.

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Cloudability features

With IBM Cloudability, FinOps teams from finance to engineering to product and organizational leadership can all work together to maximize the value of their cloud spend. Cloudability’s robust features address fundamental FinOps domains and capabilities.

Understand cloud usage and cost

Work together to gather all the required information to perform FinOps including cloud cost, cloud usage, observability, utilization, sustainability, and other data.

Quantify business value

Connect usage and cost data to business benefits and map cloud costs to budgets. Leverage historical data and plans to forecast while aligning with KPIs and benchmarking against peers.

Optimize cloud usage and cost

Focus on cloud efficiency by ensuring that only resources that provide benefit to the organization are used and are consumed at the lowest possible cost.

Integrations

Cloudability works well with others! Robust integrations enable inputs from other data sources for a full picture of your cloud costs.

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