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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.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Cost Management vs. Densify Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"It encompasses a multitude of specialized services, each with its associated costs and considerations.""The initial setup is straightforward.""The initial setup process is easy.""The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time. Even though we have a couple of analytics provided by our company, those are not in real time.""The most valuable aspect of Azure Cost Management for me is the cost-saving recommendations based on our usage patterns.""Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals.""It is easy to log in, and everything is graphical so that you can build on the published resources.""The resource forecasting feature is invaluable. Secondly, the ability to drill down to the regional and resource level is incredibly helpful for pinpointing where my costs are accruing."

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"The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs.""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 solution's tech support is excellent.""I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel.""The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis.""The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status.""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.""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."

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Cons
"Azure Cost Management is expensive.""If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better.""Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved.""The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes.""I would like to see better customization.""The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses.""I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting.""It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."

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"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.""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.""The solution's stability is the primary concern for me.""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.""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.""Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's free out of the box."
  • "I think the solution was free initially."
  • "Based on the transitional cost we charge, it's not expensive, but could be better."
  • "The solution is free. It's part of having an Azure subscription."
  • "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."
  • "Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
  • "The tool's pricing is yearly."
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  • "Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
  • "Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
  • "Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
  • "There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
    Top Answer:The product comes free. There is no cost associated with the product.
    Top Answer:The solution's tech support is excellent.
    Top Answer:Densify is not a stable tool. Every time the support gets investigated, it takes much time to get refreshed.
    Top Answer:We are using Densify to produce reports and to get recommendations that can contribute to the area of our expertise.
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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    Overview

    Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.

    Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.

    Densify works by:

    • Establishing application demand patterns that are based on business cycles, seasonality, peaks, valleys, and other variables.

    • Building normalized models of cloud supply and ingesting the entire cloud catalog and latest technologies.

    • Considering numerous factors, such as performance benchmarks, cost, technical rules, tags, and policies. The solution uses business and functional tags, operational realities, and granular policy control.

    Densify Features

    Densify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Integration with management and provisioning systems
    • Machine learning-based analytics
    • Automated resource optimization
    • App owner collaboration
    • Tailored efficiency reports
    • Observability
    • Controllability
    • Capacity optimization
    • Policy driven, automated governance
    • VM placement
    • Predictive analytics

    Densify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Densify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Automated resource management: Densify provides your organization with automated resource management at scale, with elasticity at an affordable low cost.
    • Full stack visibility: The Densify solution offers full stack visibility with improved efficiency by determining container size and node resources.
    • Financial visibility: In addition to full stack visibility, one of Densify’s other advantages is that it offers full financial visibility and cost intelligence for both reporting as well as chargebacks.
    • Resizing and rebalancing: Densify analyzes your private cloud infrastructure, providing resizing and rebalancing recommendations.
    • Helps you choose the right host environment: Densify automatically routes workloads to the best hosting environment based on detailed workload requirements. For workloads not requiring immediate placement, it reserves capacity to ensure it is available when required.
    • A true SaaS implementation: Because Densify is a true SaaS implementation, there is no software to maintain or to learn.
    • Better for IT finance: The solution is good for IT finance because it collects and analyzes your detailed billing data, giving you visibility into your spending, what services you’re buying, and how to better manage your costs. In addition, it can also generate reports that cover your spending and your utilization of reservations and reserved instances and savings plans.
    • Reduce risk and costs: Machine learning-based analytics help your organization optimize consumption to eliminate waste and overprovisioning while ensuring performance.
    • Cost-efficient: The Densify solution is cost-efficient, helping you drastically reduce per-processor software license costs by placing workloads intelligently.
    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
    AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Pharma/Biotech Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Cost Management vs. Densify
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Cost Management vs. Densify and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    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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