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Apptio BI

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Ability to add percentage column in allocation table reports to understand the allocated percentage of each item.

As of today, we can create a report taking a cost metric as Cost(amortized) or Cost (Total) for a selected dimensions to list all items under the dimensions with their allocated cost. Requirement is to have an option to also add a column which is ...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Hide data source cost and usage report (allocated) for certain users

Not all users necessarily understand the difference between the data sources and not that many will be using the cost sharing feature. Hence it should be possible to hide it for some users and show it for others.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

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.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 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 ...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Handle Zero or NA value in Calculated metric

We are using Insights to get notified if % change value is more than 10% over a period of time. To calculate % change over previous period, the logic used is: % change = (Current period cost - Previous period cost ) / Previous period cost The prob...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

BI - Re-sort Tabs

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

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review