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Allow date filters based on Invoice Date not only usage date

When validating Invoices, the usage date and the invoice periods are not always the same. We need to validate invoices that include usage in the future (esp for GCP which bills in PST vs. UTC). Allowing the date filter to be based on usage date, w...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Show Latest Forecast Estimate: Actuals + Forecast

It would be very useful to be able to compare Forecast and Estimate, where the Forecast can comprise actuals data for completed months, as opposed to the original forecast. This would give a more helpful Forecast Variance position where the "Lates...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Planning 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...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Anomaly Alert Digest & Grouping

We're currently using Cloudability Anomaly Alerts, and each detected anomaly triggers its own individual notification. This can result in a large number of alerts in a short period of time. Is it possible to configure Cloudability to send a consol...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

New timing period selection used to set when 'data is available' (e.g. sustainability)(offset)

Take Sustainability data. It is not made available until mid month, for the previous month.i.e. around 16/17th July the June sustainability metrics become available.i.e. around 16/17th August the July sustainability metrics become available.At pre...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

ApptioBI custom calculated metric functions like average, count, min, max

I would like to be able to use normal excel like functions in custom calculations in ApptioBI calculated metrics.i.e. Count, Sum, Avg, Min, Max, etc e.g. Average monthly( Cost(Total) ), Count(RDS instances), etc
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

RFE for direct integration between Apptio Cloudability and Snowflake to collect and view granular usage/costs (credits) data based on object tagging.

Granular details at account levels, service levels, service types, and rate usage types, billing types, etc. is required for cost/credit attribution, as well as for the entire organization and/or product teams to view their respective credit consu...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
4 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 0 Submitted

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 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 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted