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Apptio Costing

Filter rightsizing recommendations by lease type

Rightsizing recommendations currently can't be filtered by lease type, causing recommendations that if followed would result in waste by failing to consider the cost impact of the unused reserved instance.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Add ability to bulk update Generated (Enrichment) Editable Tables like you can for Normal Editable Tables

Generated editable tables for enrichment are highly valuable but have a key limitation. Users need to be able to export, update values and reimport to allow bulk updates like you can for standard editable tables. Like for standard editable tables,...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Need parameter to dynamically pull "previous month" data via API URL

This would help our customer be able to automate API queries that require previous month data, which is not currently supported.
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Modify Email Subscription

Hi TeamOne of my customers, Jabil has requested for this but i think this would be a good feature to have for customers where they can modify the Email Insights. Today there is a default insight that goes via Email subscriptions.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Update email subscription functionality to recognize filters applied within tabs & groups

When trying to setup email subscriptions for users, the email subscription settings are not recognizing that the report has filters due to the fact that the filters are within a report tab/group. Despite having filters applied, the "With Filters" ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Enable Waterfall Chart Data Export to Excel and CSV

Waterfall charts are commonly used to explain financial, operational, and planning variances by visually presenting the drivers behind movements between two values. While the visualisation provides an effective way to communicate changes, the unde...
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Option to apply slicers to select columns in a report table

The customer has a use case where they are building reports off of a single master table with various types of values appended. They would like to be able to customize how slicers are applied to a report table, so that the slicer only affects cert...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Sorting the list of hidden columns in a table to facilitate unhiding one from a long list

What I experience: Often I have tables with many columns, most of which are not useful to the purpose I am working on. I normally try to get rid of these columns as early as possible to leave only the ones relevant for the task. Sometimes however ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Future consideration

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

Security TCO

Jabil is looking to track their cyber security spends and TCO. With AI costs rising, they are also looking to optimize and track their cyber security spends.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Future consideration