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Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add a gear icon so users can customize the columns they wish to see on the main Connector screen.

When Admins have to change the time period settings for new Fiscal Years, it would be helpful to quickly scan to locate the ones that post to the beginning of the FY rather than to current month or previous month. I've added "posts to CM" or "post...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ADM should recognize Daylight Savings

Currently in ADM, when we select a time period we have to select EDT (for eastern time zone). Now that we are in EST, when we set up a schedule or reference an older schedule we have to offset the time by an hour to represent the EST time as it is...
16 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

I would like the Datalink cloud file ingress and egress connectors to support AWS s3 multi region access points (MRAP) so that AWS cloud customers can use these instead of bucket names.

AWS based customers can provide a s3 multi region access point and the Apptio Datalink connectors will be able to use that MRAP regardless if the AWS region that a s3 bucket is in is experiencing an outage because the MRAP will route the request t...
28 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

VAT Feature, but Allocated in the Monthly Forecast Columns

The enhancement would work like the VAT feature but would adjust the monthly forecast by the tax adjusted amount. For example, the contract’s location is selected, the rate is multiplied by the contract amount, then the new tax adjusted contract a...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Datalink: Show destination time period and add filters in main report

Add a column to show destination time period: It would be helpful especially at year end if we could see the Destination time frame. Annually we have to check each datalink (or maintain a separate list) of the tables that load to the first period ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted