Ternary vs. IBM Cloudability

Building the future of FinOps now

In a rapidly evolving cloud environment, it’s critical to have a partner, like Ternary, that continues to deliver new capabilities at a rapid rate. Legacy cost management tools built over the last 8–10 years haven’t kept up with the rapid pace of innovation in the FinOps space. Ternary is building a platform for today’s cloud consumers. Below, compare features of Ternary vs. IBM Cloudability.

IBM Cloudability

Platform

Multi-tenant SaaS platform

Self-hosted platform

Multi-cloud support

Agentless Kubernetes monitoring

Intuitive user interface

Partner capabilities

Streamlined implementation and onboarding

Billing Rules Engine

MSP-specific dashboard

Features

Usage and rate optimization

Human tunable anomaly detection

Case management with bidirectional Jira integration

Unit economics

Pricing

Subscription model

Fixed rate based on annual
cloud spend

Percentage (%) of cloud spend with additional license charges for add-on products (e.g., Cloudability TotalCost, Cloudability Savings Automation, etc.)

Overage charges

Yes

Professional services fees

Yes, tiered, based on multiple factors

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Thinking about change?

Ternary replaces native consoles and legacy providers with a modern FinOps solution.

Make switching easier by harnessing the power of Ternary in your organization.

Rackspace partners with Ternary to deliver value to Google Cloud customers

“Ternary is a very well-thought-out cost management platform for GCP—one of the best, from what I’ve seen in the market, and from a feature set standpoint. Ternary is also a very good relation to have overall, if you’re in the GCP business.”

The Linux Foundation partners with Ternary to drive operational efficiency

“The Ternary team has been great to work with. From the early days of contract discussions to providing product feedback and requests, they act as an extension of our team. Being able to partner at that level is really beneficial to us.” Our partnership with Ternary has been successful from an ROI standpoint, because we don’t have to invest in hiring a full-time team for FinOps.”

Decisions uses Ternary for a single source of truth across AWS, GCP, and Azure

“Before using Ternary, it would take me hours to analyze our cloud costs. Now, I have a single source of truth for all my cloud spending across Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. With Alert Tracking, I can instantly identify and investigate cost changes, saving me valuable time and ensuring we meet our growth and margin objectives.”

BetterCloud drives gross-margin reduction with Ternary

“Our cloud infrastructure costs were 17% of non-GAAP revenue. We reduced that down to 8% of non-GAAP revenue with Ternary.”

Ready to switch?

Make it easy on yourself by following these steps.

Step

Configure your cloud service providers in Ternary

Ternary’s simple configuration process requires as little as 15 minutes, working with someone from your team who has appropriate permissions. Once initial configuration is done, you’ll have everything you need at your fingertips: cost and usage data, rightsizing recommendations, existing budgets, commitment discount inventory, and recommendations for further savings.

Step

Set up group memberships to align with your SSO configuration

Ternary provides simple, accessible integration with any major SSO provider, allowing you to align your groups with appropriate permissions, scoped data, and functionality.

Step

Create scoped views

With our intuitive UI, you can easily create views for your users so they see only the data that is timely and relevant to them. For example, you can create views that align to departments, teams, squads, or products.

Step

Fill data-reporting gaps

Do you have gaps in your tagging or labeling strategy that make cloud cost reporting difficult? We provide an easy-to-use solution (in the form of Custom Labels) that allows you to augment your existing labeling and tagging coverage. Ensure that every dollar is allocated appropriately, aligned to your business’s financial-reporting structure.

Step

Load default dashboards

Enjoy out-of-the-box ease with Ternary’s default dashboard, which can be customized to fit your organization’s unique needs as it progresses through its FinOps journey.

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