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Apptio BI

Expose Usage Quantity Unit dimension in Apptio BI

We would like the Usage Quantity Unit field to be made available as a dimension in Apptio BI. Currently, Apptio BI provides access to usage quantities and cost metrics, but the corresponding unit of measure is not available for reporting. This cre...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Submitted

Searching a table you created in a Apptio BI Report

Searching a table you created in a Apptio BI Report
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Not under consideration

Count Metrics in Apptio BI

Count Metrics: Create a visualization/metric to display the total count of account numbers, including unique account numbers
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Not under consideration

Enable Dashboard Creation and Management via API in Cloudability

Enable customers to create, configure, and manage Cloudability dashboards programmatically through APIs. Currently, dashboard creation and widget management is only possible through the Cloudability UI, which doesn't scale for teams managing multi...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Planned for future release

Apptio BI to support User Groups

Apptio BI does not currently support User Groups or Microsoft Entra ID groups. As a result, views that are shared through User Groups does not function in Apptio BI as expected. This is a significant limitation of the product that caught us by sur...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Under review

Bringing Container Rightsizing recommendations in Apptio BI

Apart from Containers all others recommendations comes in Apptio BI, therefore this dataset is missing
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Submitted

static dashboard (webpage)

A standalone, shareable static dashboard (webpage) that external users can access without needing a Cloudability account, allowing them to view their own cost data directly
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Respective Color in Reporting Cloudability & Apptio BI for each CSP

Respective colors would be helpful to keep continuity and avoid confusion
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Submitted