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IBM Cloudability Feature
Business Mapping
Map cloud spending to fit your organization and applications for accurate reporting
The inability to automatically overlay business structures on top of cloud spend creates a disconnect between IT, finance and line of business teams. This difference in cloud language leads to project delays, slower migrations and less organizational confidence in cloud. Often, cloud infrastructure tags or labels are tied to engineering requirements, not business or finance measurement or chargeback needs.
Business Mapping is a rules based engine that categorizes cloud spending to the specific taxonomy of the business, enabling organizations to optimize the unit economics of a given application, services or business unit. This includes the ability to automate a full chargeback and integrate with popular business tools like ServiceNow.
IBM has been recognized as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools.
“IBM provides the most complete full-stack CCMO solution,” according to the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024.
Easily map complex business logic onto cloud spending with dynamic, flexible and time-adjusted rules
Using its powerful declarative language, the Business Mapping rules engine supports sophisticated and nested evaluation criteria to classify cost data to specific business units, applications or other defined business structures.
Make information easily consumable
The Business Mapping API enables full integration with IT Ops and FinOps processes so system generated ERP and CMDB cost center codes are easy to understand by humans and make reports and dashboards more meaningful.
Cloudability offers an out-of-the-box integration with ServiceNow, allowing organizations to drive their cost allocation and business mapping rules directly from the world’s most popular ITSM and CMDB tool. By maintaining just one source of truth for these business rules, customers reduce effort and errors when allocating costs.
Track governance and compliance to company standards
With Business Mapping, governance rules are applied to meet compliance requirements, such as tag compliance, geo data location compliance and allocation criteria based on project lifecycle status (new experiment vs. keeping the lights on) and dates (reorganization effective date, change in accounting rules, etc.)
Finance and technology teams partner to enable faster business decisions
Finance and procurement teams can now understand where spend occurs in terms of applications, products, services, and business units, even if they don’t fully understand the difference between underlying cloud resources such as EC2, EBS, and S3, or non-cloud costs such as Datadog, Databricks, Snowflake, or FOCUS-compliant billing sources. This enables cross-team conversations between finance and tech partners, resulting in better business 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.
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.
