Cloud Analytics Product Evaluation Checklist

There are many cloud analytics and cost management solutions on the market today. This checklist is designed to help you evaluate your options and determine the best solution for your needs.

Product Evaluating: product name

Clouds Supported Public Clouds Private Clouds □ Amazon Web Services □ VMware □ Microsoft Azure □ Openstack □ Google Cloud Platform □ IBM □ Other ______□ Other ______

Onboarding Process □ Immediate connection to cloud sources – no services required □ Multi-day implementation process – light services required □ Multi-week/month implementation process – heavy services required

Data Transformation Capabilities (ability to normalize, correct, or enrich data from provider) □ No data transformation capabilities available – what you see is what you get □ Support for cloud provider tags only □ Data transformation requires services engagement □ Limited self-service transformation capabilities □ Robust self-service transformation capabilities

Reporting and Analytics □ Out-of-the-box reports □ Self-Service drag & drop report authoring □ Out-of-the-box charts and graphs □ Report scheduling and distribution □ Out-of-the-box optimization insights □ Report export to PDF, CSV, XLS □ Customizable optimization alerts □ Role-based filtering

Views (Dashboards) □ No dashboard capability □ Personalized views for users and groups □ Drag & drop customizable widgets □ Interactive charts and graphs

Budgets and Alerts

□ No budget capability □ Budgets for single category (e.g. subscription ID) □ Budgets for any category (e.g. subscription ID, resource type, department) □ Budgets by single measure (e.g. cost) □ Budgets by any measure (e.g. cost, utilization) □ Flexible alert thresholds (e.g. 75%, 90%, 100%) □ Automated email alert notification

Forecasting □ No forecasting capability □ Flexible date ranges □ Forecasts based on historical trends □ Multiple forecasting methodologies □ Flexible forecast sources (e.g. cost or usage)

Permissions □ Limited or no permissions capability □ Highly granular permissions capability -- by user, group, role □ Ability to filter data based on permissions □ Ability to filter product capabilities based on permissions (e.g. report authoring)

Help and Tutorials

□ Context-sensitive help □ Video tutorials □ Onboarding services

Pricing

□ Tiered pricing based on app features □ Pricing based on percent of cloud spend □ Pricing based on number of cloud sources □ Pricing based on number of users

The best way to evaluate Cloud Cruiser 16 is to participate in a Free Trial with your own data. For questions, please contact your sales consultant or email us at [email protected].