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Data Mapping and Organization

JOSHUA-X 200 Joint Human–AI Systems for Organizational, XR, User Experience, and Adaptive Innovation

JOSHUA-X 200 Joint Human–AI Systems for Organizational, XR, User Experience, and Adaptive Innovation Conceptual IBM/DARPA-Style Research Proposal Inspired by: Joshua J. Bostick Publicly available information indicates that Joshua J. Bostick earned...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Add Payer ID and Payer Name as dimensions available in rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting

Please expose Payer ID and Payer Name as first-class dimensions across rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting. This would let enterprises with multiple AWS organizations or consolidated billing structures segment and compare recommend...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Cloudability Business Mappings for Resource Count

We would like to add Resource Count as a business metric in Cloudability Business Mappings. However, it's not possible for now because it is a runtime variable metric. Resource Count is highly important for us to track consumed resources besides c...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Support Reporting for Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) Multiple Billing Profiles

Lots and lots of customers are migrating from EA to MCA agreements and one of the features of this migration is to define billing profiles as part of the allocation methodology. Currently Cloudability cannot report on cost and usage based on these...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

It will be helpfull if there is an option to re-process our existing cloudability data inorder to incorprate new tags & business rules

1.Tags and Business rules updation in Cloudability is an ongoing exercise. Every time reaching out to support in case of data re-process requirement causes delay and inconvenience 2. New cloud accounts many times get created during the last few da...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in report even when Label is available

Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in reports even when Label is available and only value is missing. Some default labels for GKE resources dont have a value, but can be used to distinguish such resources from GCE without the need of installing ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

SyncAwsEc2Volume: Attached and Unattached time

Business Case We are requesting a Cloudability enhancement to expose attached time and unattached time for EC2Volume resources. Today, storage cost visibility shows what we are spending, but not how long a volume was actually in use versus sitting...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted