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Azure Cost Management vs BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Cost Management
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (4th)
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (42nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (45th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. Azure Cost Management is designed for Cloud Cost Management and holds a mindshare of 2.9%, down 7.1% compared to last year.
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 1.6% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Cost Management2.9%
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Cloudability5.4%
Other85.8%
Cloud Cost Management
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management1.6%
VMware Aria Automation5.5%
IBM Turbonomic4.7%
Other88.2%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

HM
Architect at Nagarro
Has helped define budget limits and monitor cost impact during long-term solution planning
There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different charts in the dashboards, it's difficult to understand which chart is representing what. Those interfaces could be made simpler. I'm not much into analytics patterns, so Azure Cost Management's Cost Analytics feature hasn't particularly helped my organization understand spending patterns.
VB
Enterprise Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Helps design blueprints in a cloud environment but the support is a major problem
One of the major problems is that support is not so good. I used to have a support expert in Spain but they left two years ago. BMC doesn't invest a lot in network automation but network automation is a major point in CLM. There aren't any experts here in Europe, maybe they have in America, I don't know. The main problem is the support in Europe. We had a lot of problems with the people who got put on our cases. The agents that we were assigned to were not so capable. They wanted to replicate the problem. If you have an incident, it takes a lot of time to troubleshoot the problem. The incident support is not so good. The technicians don't know the platform well. BMC doesn't want to invest in CLM. Two years ago we had a lot of problems. Maybe BMC realized that CLM is an end of life product.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Azure Cost Management has valuable native features."
"The product has helped save costs for the company."
"We don't actually use the Azure Cost Management features. We have our own capabilities. We put our own technology on top of Azure as Azure doesn't deliver a really good cost optimization, so our customers come to us to enhance what they're potentially doing inside their Azure platform."
"It has predictive analysis. It can forecast based on the costs associated with the particular architecture and how often they use it, estimating how much they'll spend."
"Billing management is self-explanatory. There isn't a specific feature that stands out, but it's a fundamental aspect that needs to be present."
"Azure Cost Management has improved my cloud expense management."
"I would recommend this product to anyone who is deploying to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is its way of segregating accounts based on resources."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"We have many regions where more than 10000 servers are deployed, so it helps in patching and hardening of servers."
"Total build time has been reduced from four weeks to one week, then later to 24 hours."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"Allowing systems to be provisioned in a wide range of environments, such as Azure, AWS, or on-premise, reduces the level of training required as well as creates consistency across the board."
 

Cons

"The product's foecasting needs improvement."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"Adding a simple workflow automation capability would be helpful. In our HR, procurement, and finance departments, all of the processes are manual."
"The solution's technical support should be faster, more knowledgeable, and customer-friendly."
"What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand."
"Azure Cost Management should be made cheaper."
"The tool's pricing should be made cheaper."
"The policy-based remediation is probably the biggest area where Azure is lacking and that's why we sell a lot of our technology to our customers."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"It was complex as it does not include a good, extensive feasibility and compatibility guide."
"Going to BMC for PS is not at all recommended from my experience."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The tool's pricing is yearly."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
"I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
"You are charged based on how much you use the solution."
"Azure Cost Management is a free cost management tool."
"It's free out of the box."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
17%
Insurance Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
The pricing part could be improved. I would rate it as six out of ten. It depends on the solution. We mostly pay for our licenses.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different ch...
What is your primary use case for Azure Cost Management?
I use Azure Cost Management indirectly from Snowflake. Not all of the Azure stack is utilized, only some of it for the future.
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Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
BMC CLM
 

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Sample Customers

Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware
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