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Apptio BI

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Filter - show options based on current filter

When we filter a report based on multiple filters, if we select a Line of Business and then want to filter on a Business Unit, it would be good to see under Business Units only the BUs included in the LOB selected
about 18 hours 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 ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Freeze Environment and Settings When Scrolling Down

When in a BI report and scrolling down to various visualizations you lose the Environment box, along with the Current View box. Need that to stay in place/be visible when scrolling down.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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,...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Make AWS ARN available in Cloudablity Datasets

Problem: Right now the Resource ID is available in the Cloudability data sets such as Cloudability Cost & Usage, however AWS ARN (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html). The ARN combines a lot of metadata into a ...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted