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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

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

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

Meta data field of 'project_labels' not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration

We are able to upload the column named 'project_labels' using the Google Cloud Platform Connector on Datalink Classic. The meta data field however from GCP of 'project_labels' is not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration in FDM. Business reaso...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

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

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