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Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised. Cloudability seems to retain the business mappings value from t...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Scorecard can have historical data option

My customer is looking for scorecard data for more than 30 days. As of now in scorecard there is only two option either we can choose look back period of last 10 days or 30 days.
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Submitted

Regarding the Rightsizing Score table on the Scorecard

In the current Cloudability Scorecard, accounts that are not connected are still shown with a rightsizing score of 100. Since connected accounts with no recommended actions are also displayed as 100, this makes it difficult to clearly distinguish ...
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Move Visualization - Filter for Your Own

When moving a Visualization to another Report, provide a filter that narrows the Select Report dropdown to your own Reports, as rare that one would move visualization to someone else's Report.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted