Ternary vs. Apptio 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. Traditional FinOps tools built over the last 8–10 years haven’t kept up with the rapid pace of innovation in the cloud computing space. Ternary is building a platform for today’s cloud consumers. Below, compare features of Ternary vs. Apptio Cloudability.

Apptio Cloudability

Platform

Multi-tenant SaaS platform

Self-hosted platform

Rapid innovation

Simple implementation

Intuitive user interface

Features

Multi-cloud support

Agentless Kubernetes monitoring

Flexible tagging and labeling

Usage and rate optimizations

Tunable anomaly detection

Case management with bidirectional JIRA integration

Unit economics

Ramp plans

MSP functionality

Pricing

Subscription model

Fixed rate based on annual
cloud spend

Fixed rate based on annual cloud spend,
with annual uplift

Overage charges

Yes, at a multiple of base rate

Professional services fees

Yes, tiered based on multiple factors

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.

See your cost and usage data within hours, not days

Quickly create your budgets and allocate shared costs across your organization

Create and share dashboards with our powerful reporting engine

Empower your team, with no need to engage professional training services

Why Ternary?

Companies who trust us

How do you switch to a new cloud cost platform?

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, committed-use inventory, and committed-use discount 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.

Partners and customers say…

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.”

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.”