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Data Mapping and Organization

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Quick preview for business mappings

When changing a business mapping, I would love to see a preview of what the results would look like when the change processes. Instead of waiting to need for a reprocess to be complete, this would at least let me validate the change is performing ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Add a new Cloudability Vendor Dimension to map the CUR value "Seller of Record"

In Cloudability, under the vendor section there are two different fields that helps in identifing costs based on: - Vendor: which maps the CUR vendor field (like AWS, Azure, GCP) - Seller: which maps the CUR BillingIdentity field (like AWS, AWS Ma...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Views

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Enhance Service Name (or other dimensions) with AI Model Names from Product Name

Currently, services such as AWS Bedrock (particularly when purchased in AWS Marketplace in this user's scenario) pass through the name of the AI model being used in the Product Name dimension. However, Product Name is not available in TrueCost Exp...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration