(Only for clients on Apptio education system, Internals and partners need to take IBM Cloudability for Practitioner Level 4 course on YourLearning and IBM training respectively). Become a Cloudability expert by gaining in-depth knowledge of the product and earn an industry-recognized certification. Learn about different Cloudability features that will help you organize your cloud billing data, will provide visibility to your cloud spend and will help you optimize your cloud cost and usage. This course is recommended for Apptio administrators. Upon completion, students will be assigned the title of Apptio Certified Practitioner
Learn about the importance and challenges of tagging, checking tagging compliance, and how to set a tagging strategy.
Learn how to maximize value by ensuring that the personas are aligned with the dashboards they use every day, so they can see the data they care about even faster.
IBM Cloudability: Foundation
Duration: 4 hours
Take this course to gain foundational knowledge of Cloudability like introduction to cloud and Cloudability, FinOps methodology and steps for doing user-set up in Frontdoor.
Overview of learning plan
Introduction to cloud and Cloudability
FinOps primer (self-paced)
FinOps primer (student guide)
User set up in Frontdoor
Course Knowledge check
IBM Cloudability: Data Ingestion
Duration: 1 hour
Take this course to discover how to use Cloudability's in-app training guides to successfully complete vendor credentialing.
Credentialing overview
Introduction to vendor credentialing
In-app training guide: Data Ingress
In-app training guide: Data Egress
IBM Cloudability: API
Duration: 3 hours
Take this course to dive into Cloudability API and explore its various endpoints.
Introduction
Various API endpoints
Course knowledge check
IBM Cloudability: Cost Visibility
Duration: 2 hours
Take this course to learn about Cloudability features that will help you gain visibility into your cloud spend.
Data requirement
TrueCost explorer
Tag explorer
Views
Reports and dashboards
MCS walkthrough
Resource inventory
Overall process overview
IBM Cloudability: Optimization Features
Take this course to understand Cloudability features that will help you optimize both cloud costs and usage.
Data requirement: Anomaly detection, rightsizing and optimizing rate
Anomaly detection
Rightsizing
Rightsizing ROI
Rightsizing preferences
FinOps best practice for rightsizing
Complete guide to rightsizing
Commitment portfolio
Commitment manager
Commitment recommendations
Overall process overview: Anomaly detection, rightsizing and optimizing rate
IBM Cloudability: Budgets and Forecasts
Take this course to gain insights into Cloudability features that assist in planning budgets and forecasting cloud expenses.
Introduction to budget and forecast tools
Current month report
Forecasts
Budgets
IBM Cloudability: Data Organization
Take this course to explore Cloudability features that will help you efficiently organize data of both cloud usage and spend.
Tags and labels
Account groups
Business mapping and metrics
Cost sharing
Containers and Kubernetes
Complete the 60 question final evaluation by scoring minimum 80%. Upon passing, learners will earn badge, and certificate from Apptio Education Services.