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Data Mapping and Organization

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Decouple Business Metric reprocessing from Business Dimension reprocessing.

Why is it useful? Currently, "Reprocessing" is a destructive action for historical data integrity. FinOps practitioners often need to create new efficiency KPIs (Business Metrics) and apply them to historical data to spot trends. However, because ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Enablement of the untaggable spend for GCP in Tag explorer of Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability Tag Explorer provides clear visibility into untagged spend and tag coverage gaps for AWS and Azure. However, similar visibility is missing for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly for spend that is technically untaggab...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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 ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Allow Hierarchical Business Dimensions to contain mapping file values without character restriction

Certain dimension values contained in a HBM mapping file fail on upload as the characters aren't accepted by the system. This causes a problem for the user if their source system contains these characters. An example is commas, which are rejected ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation - Financial Integrity and Operational Efficiency - reconciliation automation

Roadmap Proposal: Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation Problem Statement The current cloud cost reporting lacks a direct lineage between billing line items and actual inventory transactions. This creates a "black box" dur...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Support for GCP Cost (List)

Users need metrics to behave consistently across services and vendors. Cost (list) ideally reflects public, On demand pricing for usage but that is not the behavior on GCP. Please support Cost (list) in GCP consistently across all servicesr like i...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Make Legal Entity from AWS Available in Cloudability Reporting

AWS includes a field LegalEntity lineItem/LegalEntity The Seller of Record of a specific product or service. In most cases, the invoicing entity and legal entity are the same. The values might differ for third-party AWS Marketplace transactions. P...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Mutiple Exchange Rates per month (AWS)

The Multi-Currency configuration only allows one exchange rate upload per month. Invoices received each month have various rates depending on the date they were issued. Ideally, there would be the ability to assign an exchange rate to each invoice...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Show cloud native naming schema

I need to see the cloud specific naming for services such as SQL managed instance vs SQL Server and SQL database instead of the generalized fields. This makes it much easier to review spend with the application owners and understand which resource...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted