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When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Improvement "Related" functionality in TMB Studio

It will be very handful to add into functionality "Related" tables that are using current table as a source table. The same for Lineage, now it`s not showing any relation between these tables.
4 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Notification of when Calculations are complete in IBM Apptio TBM Studio

If there was some type of automated notification of when the calculations completed in IBM Apptio - TBM Studio, it would help everyone! This would help us to know exactly when we can push to production and get that information out to our customers...
7 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Can we get the sustainability metrics like CO2 emissions and power consumption in Kwh directly from Cloudability into TBM Studio as part of the existing cloudability connector (cldy_monthly_**) ?

Right now you are providing cloud sustainability API supported by the cost reporting endpoints, but once used, it will lead to another extra table with our Apptio model. Also, I see that these 2 sustainability metrices ( but with blank values) are...
5 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Can we have Load time indicator or progress bar to set expectations.

At times, reports in Apptio take significantly longer to load without any prior indication. For example, during a live screen-sharing session where we’re reviewing financials, switching to another report can trigger a long ‘Calculating…’ phase. In...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio FrontDoor Create Cookie to Save Email for Next Login

BACKGROUND: We have Single Sign On configured and working for Apptio. Users need to type their email address each time they log in. Once they enter their email, the system logs them in via SSO. ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: In other SSO enabled systems, th...
12 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
26 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Multiple scheduling options in a single day - instead of just once schedule per day

Like Datalink we should get an option to schedule multiple connectors in ADM to sync up Cloudy and Studio. Use-case :- A single connector is helpful if we have a fix time when Cloudy is getting updated and that too just once a day. However, in ord...
15 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted