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Exact Reconciliation of Monthly Costs in Apptio BI

Consistently showing incorrect Invoice amounts for GCP and Azure when looking at amortized costs (and total costs in the case of GCP). In every case, the cost metric for a given month should tie out to the cost invoiced by the cloud provider at th...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Inclusion of CPU and Memory Utilization data into BI reporting

Currently no available data for resource utilization in Apptio BI. COIN can be shown using the "Cloudability Rightsizing" data source but that is subjective to recommendations given by the system. Turbonomic is pulling CPU and Memory utilization d...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Organize Pages in Apptio BI

Currently no ability to adjust page order in Apptio BI. Would be useful to be able to move and order pages to better curate the flow of reporting from page to page.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Unified Filters Across Data Sources

Useful to limit confusion for end users by unifying filters for the same categories across data sources. Example: if I have a business mapping for "Business Application" and a Plan Dimension in CFP for "Business Application" the reports in BI requ...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Introduce the ability to sort data by any monthly column in tables that display multiple months of the same metric as separate columns. Each monthly column header should include sorting controls (ascending/descending), similar to the functionality available when only a single month is displayed.

Key Requirements: Sorting controls (e.g., up/down arrows) should be visible and active on all monthly columns in multi-month tables. Clicking a sorting control should reorder the entire table based on the selected month’s data, either ascending or...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

COIN Score cannot be incorporated into Apptio BI without purchasing TBM Studio

I want to use the COIN score from the new optimization dashboard but I can't get it in the Apptio BI dashboard without purchasing the TBM studio software. Please add a way to incorporate parts of the optimization dashboard into Apptio BI.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Show Underutilized RIs and SPs

I need a master dashboard to show all savings achievable, completed, and exclusions. I would like to use the data from the other tools within apptio to create widgets that show the utilization of reserved instances and savings plans, much like i w...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Set own quarters in Calendar for reporting

We track all costs depending on fiscal year starting in April of each year. We need to be able to set our own quarters and be able to set start time with no distinct end date.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

ApptioBI custom calculated metric functions like average, count, min, max

I would like to be able to use normal excel like functions in custom calculations in ApptioBI calculated metrics.i.e. Count, Sum, Avg, Min, Max, etc e.g. Average monthly( Cost(Total) ), Count(RDS instances), etc
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Timeframe Reporting - set future end dates

Timeframe reporting would be much more useful to me if I could set my own Fiscal year and show spend from april 2025 to april 2026. At the current rate, I have to hard set each date to the end of 2025 and scramble to add the new months once januar...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted