Case Study: Apptio achieves 30% lower cloud unit costs with IBM Cloudability

Cloudability & FinOps cuts unit costs by 30% with Apptio

The customer, Apptio, is a global SaaS leader that faced escalating cloud costs due to explosive growth in its customer base. This rapid expansion threatened to exceed budgets and required the company's Product and Engineering group to sharpen its focus on cost management without degrading performance. To address this, Apptio used its own solution, IBM Cloudability, to gain visibility and control over its cloud financial operations.

Apptio implemented a mature FinOps program built on IBM Cloudability, which served as a single source of truth for cloud costs. The solution provided automated cost allocation, real-time monitoring, and advanced dashboards, enabling the team to isolate key cost drivers and launch over 77 savings initiatives. As a result, Apptio optimized its unit costs by 30%, saved millions of dollars within months, and brought cloud spending back to its budget baseline within a single month, all while maintaining excellent service performance for its customers.

Cloudability & FinOps