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Billing & Costs & Discounts

Officially support transformed/custom-generated CUR data ingestion, and publish the required data and manifest file specifications

### SummaryWe request that IBM Turbonomic officially support the ingestion of Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data that has been transformed or custom-generated by the customer, and that IBM publish the complete specifications (required columns, data ...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Under review

Support cost exports at billing account level for MCA customers

Today Turbonomic only supports cost exports at a billing profile level for MCA customers which means they have to create one export per billing profile which can be a lot of work depending on the number of profiles in their environment. The ask he...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Under review

Provide Effective Costs for Computer Specs (Azure App Service Plans)

Efficiency Opportunity and Realized Savings aren't reflecting the accurate costs for Computer Specs when the resources are consuming Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Planned for future release

Extend Turbo's ability to identify Azure commitment optimization opportunities with the ability to go acquire Azure commitments

For large Azure clients, the ability to automate purchasing Azure commitments will help them optimize their coverage and lower their unit costs, and remove an administrative burden. It will also fill a gap in the market - few tools automate Azure ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Future consideration

Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Under review

Use Billing Data for Savings Widget Calculations

The Savings Widget currently bases its savings potential on CSP list prices. However, since most organizations have discounted rates per SKU, the projected savings amounts may not reflect actual cost reductions. Request is to integrate billing dat...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Planned for future release

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Future consideration

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Future consideration

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Add support for Azure Reservation Azure SQL

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized. You can also buy Azure SQL RI's. Thus, please add support for reservations/reserved instances for other s...