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Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
about 1 hour ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Provide a means to view all reports a user has access to in one place

All the available reports do not show under the Apptio BI "All" tab. It excludes the Apptio BI Reports. This is not intuitive. All is expect to mean All. It is true that the help pages do state that All: the "All" button Shows reports that you hav...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

View by Week

Apptio BI reports offers a view by daily, monthly, quarterly and half-yearly at present. It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs. It would also be useful to customise the first day of the...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
22 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...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
about 1 month 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.
13 days 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...
11 months 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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration