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Apptio BI

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

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
1 day 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...
23 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,...
11 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...
11 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

Planning and Apptio BI permissions to be independent

Would like the ability to add users to Apptio BI to view planning data via the reports but not give them to have access to planning. It seems unnecessary to add a bunch of users to planning and bog down the system when they just need to view repor...
22 days 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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

ApptioBI calculated total field no longer working

Related to case TS017808747. The "AWS Services Count" widget in a "FinOps Dashboard" is no longer totaling the count of each service.In Oct the total count was 49 but in Nov it was showing as 1.The widget is using a calculated field "Cost Total /"...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

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

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