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Apptio BI

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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...
23 days 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 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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 /"...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Missing 'Select All' option in Apptio BI Report level filters

The report level filters in Apptio BI lack the option to select all values filtered using the search functionality. Having a "Select all" would avoid the cumbersome task of selecting each item individually.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Increase Apptio BI limitation of 10 metrics and 15 dimension

Current Apptio BI metrics and dimensions have limitation and caps the report capability and functions.
4 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.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Needs more information

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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review