We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Densify based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals."
"We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product."
"The solution helps us diagnose and understand why some resources cost more so that we can fine-tune and reduce the cost."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like the fact that you can set alerts on the predicted cost in Azure Cost Management."
"We find the analytics available via this solution to be very useful, as it allows us to easily see detailed cost information for each of our various subscription elements."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure Cost Management for me is the cost-saving recommendations based on our usage patterns."
"It encompasses a multitude of specialized services, each with its associated costs and considerations."
"Densify's ability to aggregate multiple on-premise vCenters and multiple cloud accounts, gives it a level of visibility not found in many places."
"The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues."
"The solution's tech support is excellent."
"The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs."
"I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel."
"One would be the automatic rebalancing of the environment. That was one feature which helped. With that, we could improve our efficiency of our VMware infrastructure."
"The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status."
"The Control Console is an incredible way to give a quick view of current capacity utilization allowing technical people to drill down quickly and allowing business/management people to get a quick overview of the environment."
"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."
"Azure Cost Management is expensive."
"I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."
"It would be beneficial if Azure Cost Management could automatically generate budget rules using AI insights, eliminating the need for manual configuration."
"The technical support could be improved."
"It can be difficult to determine the cost associated with certain resources as it relies on a tagging progress. This means we need to drill down billing reports to highlight and fix missing tags."
"A closer integration to the service management processes."
"Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented."
"Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine."
"It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box."
"The solution's stability is the primary concern for me."
"Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."
"In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools."
"Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Densify is ranked 8th in Cloud Cost Management with 9 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Densify is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Densify writes " Its most valuable feature is the ability to capture attributes in the console, but it is not a stable solution ". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, AWS Savings Plans, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and Zabbix, whereas Densify is most compared with Intel Granulate, IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, VMware Aria Operations and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. See our Azure Cost Management vs. Densify report.
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