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Apptio BI

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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...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add non calendar Financial Year Date Range options

Apptio BI only has a concept of a calendar year at present. Typically customers want to report by Financial Years. Where the customer's financial Year is not the calendar year this is not currently possible hence a core use case cannot be met. Thi...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Give ability for user to see all reports they have access to

There is no way to see a complete list of the reports that you have access to in Apptio BI. This is because the "All" option doesn't actually show all reports as one would naturally assume from the name. It only shows reports created by the user o...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

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.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration