BMC Helix Continuous Optimization vs Cloudability comparison

BMC Helix and Apptio are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. BMC Helix is ranked #37, while Apptio is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. BMC Helix holds a 0.6% mindshare in CCM, compared to Apptio’s 12.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BMC Helix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Apptio users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 1, 2025

BMC Helix Continuous Optimization and Cloudability are competitors in cloud cost and performance optimization. While BMC Helix is strong in integration, Cloudability stands out with superior analytics.

Features: BMC Helix Continuous Optimization provides advanced resource optimization, capacity management, and leverages AI for predictive insight and automation. Cloudability offers comprehensive cost management tools, real-time visibility, and advanced spend analytics to support informed financial decisions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BMC Helix Continuous Optimization supports flexible deployment, including on-premise and cloud environments, and offers strong customer support. Cloudability, primarily as a SaaS solution, facilitates seamless deployment and quick onboarding.

Pricing and ROI: BMC Helix Continuous Optimization suggests higher setup costs due to its extensive features, targeting significant ROI through comprehensive optimization. Cloudability, with a straightforward pricing structure, aims for faster ROI by focusing on cost reduction.

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BMC Helix Continuous Optimi...

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

37th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (1st), IT Operations Analytics (26th)

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

4th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudability is 12.0%, up from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudability	12.0%
BMC Helix Continuous Optimization	0.6%
Other	87.4%

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Appperf677

Application Performance Mnagement Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Enables us to right-size systems to free up resources, and identify performance problems down to the process level

Since I already have a sneak peek into the next releases, I'm very happy about what's going to be included. I would like to see continued support for the legacy parts of the tool, the old, seasoned parts that are very valuable to me. That is a message I continue to give to BMC: All the new stuff's great, but don't take away this really important stuff. That's my biggest fear, that I might lose some of my old functionality that is still extremely valuable. I want to make sure we don't lose any functionality, and that they just still keep delivering on what they're doing. I don't have anything more to ask than what they're offering.

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Vijay More

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Helps to understand and manage spending across clouds, but has dashboard limitations

Cloudability offers valuable insights into data engineering and analytics platforms. With access to the same data Cloudability utilizes, one could recreate similar dashboards on their own data platform. This implies that Cloudability's role could be replaceable with some organizational effort, provided they have the necessary data sources and expertise. However, for organizations looking to streamline processes without investing extensive time, money, and resources into building their solution, Cloudability serves as a convenient option. Moreover, it offers benefits for both single-cloud and multi-cloud users. While it's beneficial for single-cloud users, it becomes particularly advantageous for organizations with multi-cloud environments, as it helps manage costs and optimize resources across different cloud providers.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We ingest a ton of business data. We are an insurance company and we have business data, like how many quotes are done an hour, and how many policies are sold per hour. The correlation engine in the new TrueSight Capacity Optimization components are wonderful. We can do correlation analysis over months of data, and then we run models to tell our business: 'If you do 1,000 more quotes an hour, we're going to have to upgrade, and we're going to need this much more hardware.'"

"Workload characterization is super important because it lets us figure things out. Many people know, for example, that with Microsoft Word, Word.exe is the executable. Everybody knows their executable, but they don't always know what it does. It also launches other things. This tool has the ability and insight to track those things, and to know: "Oh, you wanted this executable, but this one started this, so you must want this, too." And it tells you what it had to add, what it was using or was spawning."

"The most interesting feature is certainly the simulation of the load using different servers or different KPI parameters of the business."

"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."

"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

"We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."

"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."

"Transparency and visibility are the key features."

"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."

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Cons

"Some of the data management is painful. Some of the new features haven't been implemented in quite the way I would like to get to levels of detail. For example, Visualizer parser doesn't take everything it should out of the Visualizer files. We've had to put in a work-around, but the work-around is not as accurate as what's in the file."

"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."

"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."

"The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period."

"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."

"The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."

"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

More Cloudability cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Right now, the licensing structure is by server. Everybody is licensed somewhat differently, depending on how big they are, how many licenses they have."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Energy/Utilities Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

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What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of the main issues we face. Cloudability is actually expensive, and it's quite diffic...

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I use Cloudability to help me optimize my selling plan and my residential plan? T...

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Also Known As

BMC Capacity Optimization, TrueSight Capacity Optimization, BMC Helix Optimize, BMC Helix Continuous Optimization

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Overview

BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is a comprehensive performance and capacity management solution designed to help enterprises optimize IT resources, enhancing operational efficiency while managing costs effectively.

It provides predictive analytics and modeling capabilities, allowing businesses to meet evolving demands seamlessly. By proactively identifying resource constraints and predicting future trends, BMC Helix Continuous Optimization assists organizations in aligning IT resources with business objectives. This strategic approach ensures optimized performance, resource allocation, and cost management with enhanced insights.

What are the key features of BMC Helix Continuous Optimization?

Predictive Analytics: Utilizes advanced algorithms to forecast future resource requirements.
Capacity Planning: Facilitates strategic planning to manage capacity effectively.
Anomaly Detection: Identifies unusual patterns that could impact performance.
Customizable Dashboards: Provides insights with tailored views for better decision-making.

What benefits can be expected from BMC Helix Continuous Optimization?

Cost Reduction: Optimizes resource usage to lower operational costs.
Increased Efficiency: Enhances productivity by aligning resources with demand.
Improved Forecasting: Accurate predictions help with strategic planning.
Risk Mitigation: Early detection of performance issues reduces downtime.

BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is leveraged by industries like financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications to ensure resource efficiency. These sectors benefit from predictive modeling and capacity planning capabilities, enabling them to adapt to fast-changing conditions while maintaining optimal performance.

BMC Helix

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

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Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara

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