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Cloudability

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

AWS Credentialing: Role to Role Assumption

Our current AWS CloudFormation template requires customers to grant access to an IAM User principal. IAM Users introduce persistent identity risks, conflict with modern enterprise zero-trust policies, and trigger security compliance flags for pros...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Reservations recommendations for DynamoDB

The Commitment Recommendations feature in Cloudability does not include the reservation recommendations for DynamoDB. This is required to ensure that we are able to track the DynamoDB recommendations which provides significant cost savings to our ...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Submitted

Enhancing Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping with Universal Base Dimensions

Currently, Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping (HBM) feature operates under a significant constraint a base dimension cannot be reused more than once it has been assigned to an HBM structure. For example, if 'Departmental Hierarchy' uses ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Increase max Metrics available on a Cloudability report and Dashboard.

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 Metrics for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 Metrics provides. We currently support 15 Metrics in Apptio BI reports. S...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

see all the resources in Cloudability which are available in Oracle Cost Estimator.

Only a small part of the Oracle resources available in the Oracle Cost Estimator can be selected in Apptio Workload Planning. Customer wants to see all the resources in Cloudability which are available in Oracle Cost Estimator. For example, Oracle...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning Submitted

Enable Dashboard Creation and Management via API in Cloudability

Enable customers to create, configure, and manage Cloudability dashboards programmatically through APIs. This capability would allow API-first customers to automate dashboard creation and integrate Cloudability reporting into their existing workfl...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Ability to Copy Dashboard to a Tab on a Different Dashboard

Currently, you can copy a widget from a dashboard and specify which dashboard and tab to paste it to. You can also duplicate a dashboard into a new dashboard. We would like the ability to copy all of the widgets from a dashboard to the tab of a di...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

CFP: Add Approval Workflow to Plans in CFP

Apptio Planning (formerly IT Planning) provides an approval workflow process with trackabliity of those approvals/denials. Applying a similar process to the plans in CFP would be beneficial because it would allow to keep that auditability within t...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning Submitted