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Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Language Setting Option to allows users to select their preferred language

The Language Setting Option is a crucial feature that allows users to select their preferred language, such as Japanese, Spanish, and others, instead of being limited to English. Current Situation:  Currently, our users primarily utilize th...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Set the default location to the same page when copying a visualisation

When copying a page in Apptio BI, the default page is the next page. To copy to the same page you need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to select 'Current Page'. I would like the 'Current Page' to be the first item in the list, maki...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Apptio BI - Formatting the Charts

It would be good if we have the option to change the color format of the Pivot and Bar Charts in Apptio BI. We have this functionality in Cost Transparency. Request you to implement the same in BI as well.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Clear Filter Buttom/functionality in reports

Dear TBMAs. Dear Apptio SE Team We have several reports with many columns and when filtering by several columns and we want to remove all the filters at the same time it is not possible and sometimes a filter remains active. We believe that a func...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to globally change currency for all users in Apptio BI

All users who click on Apptio BI reports that we created see them in "$" not "£". We have added the "Manage Currency Exchange" stating that the display should be GBP and to use our exchange rate. However according to support this is not yet possib...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review