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Amortization Schedule in Editable Table

When entering data in an editable table for a cost Item that needs to be spread out for time period duration it would be really helpful if the user can just check a box as is done in planning the cost can be amortized for the specific time. This w...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
21 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

This customer is looking for the ability to allocate costs within Cloudability to showback their costs related to their MS 360 Infrastructure stack.

Having this functionality would remove the manual workflow processes today to capture the services and costs associated to provide back to the business and finance teams.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

As a customer, I am looking to integrate data connectors with Cloudability to gather cost, rightsizing and optimization data for OpenStack on-premise.

The purpose of this feature would help our FinOps team bring our entire on-premise and cloud vendor data into a single pane. Currently, our workflow is extensive and extremely manual to integrate capturing metrics for our Openstack fleet. We would...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted