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Apptio BI

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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.
3 days 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...
3 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...
about 2 months 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...
3 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...
7 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.
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month 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

Waterfall Charts in BI for ITP Data

As a user I would like to take my planning data create a waterfall chart in BI. I  want to compare from ONE ITP plan this year vs next year. Current functionality in planning only allows for comparing one plan to another vs compare the s...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Forecast vs actual spend charts - Apptio BI

Experiencing issues in Apptio BI with TBM studio data when  trying to create customer version of a forecast vs actual spend charts.  The spend for current month populates forward when using overlay of visuals to show a forecast vs actual...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration