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Data Connectivity (Datalink)

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Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
29 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Enhance the cloud file ingress Datalink connector to support importing parquet files from AWS.

Enhancing the cloud file ingress connector to support parquet format would bring it closer to the level of functionality companies had with the multicloud connector in Datalink (Classic). The multicloud connector supported parquet format and many ...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink Connection For Non-Billing GCP BigQuery Data Ingestion

As a TBMA, I my organization ingests GCP Billing data into TBM Studio for reporting. We also have other GCP-related costs from vendors, such as Kafka and MongoDB, that are not included in the GCP BigQuery Billing table. We need an automated TBM St...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

After our security review we would like for a scan to be performed on customer files that are uploaded into Apptio to protect for potentially malicious content.

By having the scan it will protect our systems from potential malicious content and follow our normal security protocol which is not being met by Apptio currently.
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
6 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Datalink for fm_expense_line and cost_plan

Customer (global leading trading company) is requesting to add standard datalink with ServiceNow fm_expense_line and cost_plan tables with date range. The customer is designing to create budgets and actuals in SNow and need automatic connection wi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to add filtering to ServiceNow OOTB Connectors

The ServiceNow OOTB connectors pull in more data than required and do not support the ability to filter. Allowing the user to select column(s) and pre-defined values would reduce the unnecessary data being ingested and reduce the need to use the c...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted