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Apptio BI

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Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
about 5 hours 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 ...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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).
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Under review

Add cluster awareness for Aurora to Apptio BI Utilization Data

Customer likes the ability to show CPU utilization for RDS instances, but see the fact that the reporting is unable to provide cluster name, instances included in cluster, etc. as context to the instance level CPU utilization.
5 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,...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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 ...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 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.
20 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 ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

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.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

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