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Apptio BI

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Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Re-order of Pages in Apptio BI Report

Customer has created multiple pages in a single report. Customer wants to move re-order the pages in the report.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to add additional users to subscription

Provide the ability to add additional users to subscriptions. The current functionality invites the user to subscribe.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Ability to adjust the fiscal year & quarters when the business's fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year

The company I'm with Kroger, but I've worked for other companies who's fiscal year didn't follow the calendar year. Because of that Apptio BI and even Cloudability Reports should have the ability to adjust those dates to what suits the company. It...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release