Case Study: Hyland reduces cloud costs with IBM Cloudability from Apptio

Hyland cuts Amazon RDS costs by more than 50% with Apptio

Hyland, a leading global provider of intelligent content solutions, faced the challenge of increasing transparency and optimizing its significant AWS cloud spend as it accelerated its cloud modernization efforts. To gain data-driven insight into its cloud usage and costs, the company turned to vendor Apptio and its IBM Cloudability product.

Apptio's IBM Cloudability provided Hyland with a real-time view of its cloud costs by service type, tags, and usage patterns. The solution enabled the company to reduce cloud spend significantly, such as by identifying a database service setting that led to a more than 50% cost reduction. Apptio's tool also improved operational efficiency, influenced product development with actionable data, and helped drive a company-wide mindset shift towards cloud financial management.

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