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Alphabetical sort of the freeze columns interface

easier end user experience to find the column(s) you are trying to freeze
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to add variance comments at the full year (FY) column in Variance Analysis or Compare Shortcuts

Add the capability to add comments when comparing an annual forecast plan to another annual forecast plan (actuals + forecast) and save the comments in a layout. Currently, there is no ability to add comments when using the compare shortcuts featu...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Functionality already exists

Add a feature to allow report users to customize the reporting range themselves rather than having to request a different view of the same report.

I was approached today by the Vendor Management team to see if it would be possible to pull the last 12 (Individual) Months of data for 4 specific vendors. The current report shows the current FY's data so they would have had to download this year...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Functionality already exists

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists