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Respective Color in Reporting Cloudability & Apptio BI for each CSP

Respective colors would be helpful to keep continuity and avoid confusion
5 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enable sorting by metric on any column in ApptioBI Table visualisation

The end users of the reports would like to be able to alter the ordering of rows based on the metric values in columns, particularly when grouped by dates (e.g. you have multiple date columns and we would like to have an ordering where the highest...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enable Insights and Notifications for “No Data Returned” Scenarios

Problem Statement: The inability to trigger Insights or notifications when a query returns no data prevents users from being alerted to potentially critical gaps, such as missing uploads, failed data integrations, or operational outages. This limi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

New timing period selection used to set when 'data is available' (e.g. sustainability)(offset)

Take Sustainability data. It is not made available until mid month, for the previous month.i.e. around 16/17th July the June sustainability metrics become available.i.e. around 16/17th August the July sustainability metrics become available.At pre...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enable sorting by cost when using "View By" options other than none.

Currently, when creating a widget that displays the Top 10 costs by account year-to-date ("This Year") in a stacked bar chart, the sorting functionality behaves inconsistently depending on the "View By" setting: With View By = None, the Sort optio...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

When duplicating an ApptioBI report, have the option to "bake in" any selected global report filters into all of the widgets as pre-visualisation filters, removing set filters in process.

There are several occasions when I take a generic report and wish to save it for others to use, but want to give them a report with fixed filters and less options. The idea is I have a generic report, I preselect the filters that configure what I ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Page level filters

In the case of extensive reporting we might have different data on each page of the report. Thus, we need to have a page level filter, similar to dashboard level that only applies to current page and when using it does not affect other pages in th...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Ability to subscribe to report with preconfigured filters

We have some generic reports. We would like to be able to offer users the ability to subscribe to those reports, but where they select the filters identifying the parts of the dataset that are of interest to them (and we have a single report to ma...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Provide "Effective" Rate reporting (not just on demand)

In both ABI and Cloudability rather than just show the potential "on demand" rates for rightsizing opportunities, show the "effective" rate taking into account the customer discounts / EDP / RI / commitments to make the outcomes more real for cust...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

List of all ApptioBI Reports to which logged in User is subscribed

This would either be a new menu item that provides a list of the reports that the user is subscribed to, or a new filter on the reports page that enables you to select those reports that you are subscribed to (ideally in conjunction with other fil...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration