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New cloud services support required in Workload Planning

Hi, as part of our workload planning use case, our project managers build estimates using WP for new projects, where we require support for additional services in step 2 (resource type) while adding a resource. (Regarding the services that are ver...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 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

Workload Planning - more providers: OCI, Stackit

Currently in Apptio Workload planning, we only have AWS, Azure and GCP. Please consider implementing also OCI and Stackit to allow a comparison of cost of resources across more cloud providers
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 3 Future consideration

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...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted