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Apptio BI

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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...
4 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...
4 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.
4 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...
4 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...
12 days 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
17 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Make column pinning possible in template report

When creating table reports in BI, it is desireable to be able to pin certain columns to the left hand side. This can be done per user, but as a report creator this is ot possible. It can be selected, but this is not saved.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Being able to edit the buttons on a dashboard

This is useful for the user to be able to customize the dashboard to better fit results.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow date order to be reversed in tables, when using View by Daily/Weekly/Monthly

At present the most recent data is to the far right of the table; for many users it makes more sense to have the most recent columns first in the table with the oldest data off to the right.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Apptio BI Report Filters improvement

When filters are added to an Apptio BI report using the 'Manage Report filters' optionthey operate independently and are not linked. This means that applying one filter does not dynamically narrow down the available options in other filters. This ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted