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Cut multi‑cloud unit costs by 30%+ with market-leading FinOps intelligence
Cloud, AI, and modern architectures are unlocking massive opportunity, accelerating innovation and opening new paths to growth—but only for organizations that can invest quickly and with confidence. IBM Cloudability is a market leading, enterprise grade FinOps platform that clearly connects technology spend to business outcomes, so teams can catch issues early, act decisively, and scale with accountability.
With Cloudability, teams spend less time reconciling bills, chasing anomalies, or fighting unnecessary waste, and more time acting on what matters. Customers benefit by reducing multicloud unit costs by 30% or more, allocating 100% of cloud program costs back to the business, and achieving over 90% commitment coverage.
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Empower all members of FinOps teams to own and manage cloud spend
- FinOps practitioner
- DevOps
- IT Finance
- Product
- Leadership
- Procurement
You’re responsible for the health of the FinOps practice. Tooling is on you, including turning disparate cost and usage data into insights teams actually use.
How Cloudability helps:
- Single pane of glass for FinOps across cloud, AI and SaaS with rich, resource‑level analytics for quick decision making
- Scale cost ownership without manual work with org‑wide dashboards and personalized Views for every team, app, or product
- Allocate 100% of cloud costs using purpose‑built mapping and cost‑sharing tools to eliminate spreadsheets
- Benchmark and focus effort across teams and against peers to prioritize FinOps action where it matters most
You build and operate the applications and infrastructure that keep services fast, reliable, and secure. When optimization falls to you, it has to be safe, clear, and worth the effort.
How Cloudability helps:
- Optimize with confidence, not guesswork using rightsizing recommendations that show utilization, performance, and safe scale up or down options
- Focus only on what matters most with policies that prioritize high impact opportunities and automatically create tickets in ITSM tools
- Automate routine optimization safely for actions like terminating orphaned resources, reducing waste without manual intervention
- Go deep on Kubernetes cost and efficiency with accurate cost allocation, automated pod placement, cluster scaling, and container sizing
You turn technical usage into financial terms. Cloud costs must be charged back accurately, with enforced budgets and predictable spend. Accuracy and consistency are key.
How Cloudability helps:
- Deliver accurate chargeback at scale using business mapping and cost sharing to allocate direct and shared cloud costs
- Plan commitments and maximize savings with data driven recommendations that improve coverage and reduce on demand spend
- Make cloud costs finance ready through a single pane of glass that translates technical usage into clear, accessible cost analytics
- Forecast and budget with confidence using AI-backed, bottom-up forecasting and top-down budgeting workflows
You define the product’s success metrics and KPIs, balancing customer outcomes with technical realities. Unexpected cloud costs quickly undermine margins, roadmaps, and viability.
How Cloudability helps:
- Understand fully loaded costs for your product across cloud, AI and SaaS with a single pane of glass view
- Track unit economics in near real time by overlaying cloud costs with official business metrics
- Get alerted before costs derail plans with proactive notifications for budget breaches and spending anomalies
- Improve cloud efficiency using targeted recommendations that help product teams reduce unnecessary waste
You’re accountable for enterprise technology outcomes. You ensure cloud and AI investments deliver measurable business value, stay within financial guardrails, and support growth without unnecessary risk.
How Cloudability helps:
- Connect cloud spend to business outcomes by clearly showing how major initiatives, platforms, and products drive cost and returns
- Maintain financial control at scale with consistent cost allocation, budgeting, and forecasting that improves predictability
- See risk early, not after the fact through proactive alerts for budget breaches, spending anomalies, and rapid cost growth
- Make confident investment decisions with clear insight into cost, risk and impact across major initiatives
You manage vendor relationships, control spend, and help get maximum value from cloud and AI commitments. Reducing rates is core to your role, but optimizing commitments is difficult without clear visibility into actual usage.
How Cloudability helps:
- Support stronger vendor negotiations using accurate, timely data on actual usage and spend
- Maximize savings from vendor discounts by improving commitment coverage and reducing reliance on higher cost, on-demand pricing
- Track commitment utilization and risk with clear visibility into coverage, utilization, and potential waste across cloud providers
- Plan future workloads with confidence by comparing pricing across cloud providers for upcoming deployments
IBM Cloudability outcomes
Complete ownership and visibility
One trusted view of all cloud and AI spend, with clear ownership across teams, products, and initiatives.
Confidence to scale and invest
Make informed decisions with metrics, guardrails, forecasting and unit economics that let you say "yes" to growth.
Unmatched cost efficiency
Make every cloud dollar work harder with recommendations and automation that reduce rates and waste for efficiency that sticks.
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.
Complete ownership and visibility
Gain complete ownership and visibility across all cloud and AI spend through a single pane of glass, 100% cost allocation, and personalized views that give every team a clear understanding of what they own.
Confidence to scale and invest
Scale cloud and AI investments with confidence, guided by unit economics, accurate forecasting, and proactive budget and anomaly alerts that surface risk early and enable innovation without losing financial control.
Unmatched cost efficiency
Make every cloud dollar work harder with automation, insights, and proactive governance that continuously reduce waste, improve commitment effectiveness, and sustain cost efficiency as environments evolve.
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Drive FinOps forward - wherever you are in your journey
IBM Cloudability meets the spectrum of needs across the FinOps journey. Our packages ensure you have the capabilities you need now and in the future as your FinOps practice matures.
Essentials
For organizations that are establishing FinOps fundamentals, like multi-cloud cost visibility and rightsizing, with capabilities for understanding cloud usage and cost.
Standard
For teams that are advancing FinOps capabilities and augmenting functionality offered in the Essentials package with unit economics, total cloud program cost allocation, cloud financial planning, and workload planning.
Premium
For organizations seeking a solution with additional capabilities above the Standard package to support cross-functional FinOps teams that need one common data source, advanced optimization capabilities, and extended automation.
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