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Have the ability to add comments / description into business mapping

It makes it easier to find the information about the BM, especially if there are links to other BM.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other Planned for future release

Option to hide/collapse the chart on the Explore screen

Could we have the option to hide (by way of a toggle) the chart portion of the Explore screen? This would be beneficial when viewing data in the table. Currently, there is minimal space on the screen to view the data in the table. Having the abili...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

Cloudability Dashboard sharing should create link that preserves the settings of the FILTERS at top of page for 1-click DEEPLINK that can be shared via slack or email or put on wiki or generated programmatically creating URL with filtered argument

Why Useful? - More efficient and sharing of Database with filters selected to help recipient effortlessly see exactly what sendor wants with 1 click of DEEPLINK that retains the filtered settings. If there's a dashboard that has a filter for AWS A...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Commitment Overview Support for Azure

Hello Team, Currently, the Service Type section within the Overview tab supports AWS services. It would be valuable to extend this capability to include Azure services as well. Adding Azure service visibility would provide a more comprehensive mul...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Provide same level of reporting inside the Container insights into Cloudability Reporting

Provide same level of reporting inside the Container insights into Cloudability Reporting. Inside the container insights module, you have the ability to dig into clusters then namespaces then workloads then pods to check performance and cost data....
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
9 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Planned for future release

Native integration of Cloudability Advanced Containers allocation data with Cloudability Insight Containers for EKS Fargate

Native integration of Cloudability Advanced Containers allocation data with Cloudability Core for EKS Fargate Summary Enable Kubernetes allocation data collected by Cloudability Advanced Containers (CAC/Kubecost) for Amazon EKS Fargate workloads t...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Planned for future release