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Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review

Plan tab does not factor in cost sharing rules

It'll be helpful to use the cost views defined with the sharing rules in the Plan tab (Forecast, budget,...). Many companies don't split the budget split for IT department, but rathet by main lines of business. Also, a single resource may be used ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ?

Hi Team, Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ? In other words, right now, we are able to view the non-compute of clusters of other CSPs - AWS and GCP but not for OCI. For OCI, ONL...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
9 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Functionality already exists

Allocate static costs or credits to a specific business unit to ensure actuals against your budget is accurate in CFP

We have a couple of active scenarios: #1 we've got vendors who contribute to cloud cost that have no formal integration into Cloudability. In those instances the costs stay the same every month and its charged to a specific business unit, we want ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Planned for future release

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration