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Apptio BI

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View-Based Filter Enforcement for Apptio BI Reports

Implement a configurable mechanism within Apptio BI report settings to dynamically force specific filter criteria based on the user's selected TBM Studio view, thereby enabling granular report access control and eliminating the sole reliance on li...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Re-order pages

Introduce the possibility to re-order the pages in an ApptioBI report. When you create the report and the pages, maybe you don't have a clear vision of how many pages will you finally create and which order makes sense. Also for existing reports y...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
4 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Submitted

Move Visualization - Filter for Your Own

When moving a Visualization to another Report, provide a filter that narrows the Select Report dropdown to your own Reports, as rare that one would move visualization to someone else's Report.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Edit Visualization: drag and drop dimensions and metric

We often use the Alternative Dimentions and Alternative Metrics in the Apptio BI dashboards to allow our users with read-only access to add/hide dimensions. It would be great to have a drag and drop feature to move dimensions between Dimensions an...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Incorporate Calendar Month in Custom Formula Calculated Metric

Calculated Metrics are being used to define the budget for a given month. We take a value and multiply it by the number of days in the month. We would like to be able to configure a calculated metric to be able to dynamically determine the number ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to expand the size and full-screen of the drill table results popup

Problem:Right now the size of the drill table pop-up in an Apptio BI report is fixed. Drill tables with many columns are difficult to read and navigate in the current pop-up size. Request:Allow a report view to drag a corner of the drill table pop...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Show specific data range included as “previous period” in visuals with a previous period comparison enabled

Problem:Right now when you have a visual with a "compare" to "previous period" enabled, the previous period metric in the visual is just labeled "previous period" and doen't state what the previous period includes. Request:To provide clarity and r...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to sort my measure value in visualizations where data has Date Range: View By option other than None selected

Problem:Right now when data is grouped by day, month, etc. the data can only be sorted by the dimensions alphabetically in the Edit UI and for a report view. This means as a report owner I can't display the most costly items at the top of the tabl...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to display row totals in table visualizations

Problem:Right now in Apptio BI if I create a table visualization, there is no way to add row totals at the right side of the table. If my users require this information they either need to download an export of the table and manually calculate tho...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted