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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...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Azure SQL Server License Improvements

1. Detect SQL Server Licenses when deployed from Azure Marketplace 2. Distinguish between AHUB for Windows and AHUB for SQL Server Current Limitation: All or nothing. If Windows AHUB license is detected, it is applied to all license types includin...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Visual Indicator for Versioned Tables

The process for identifying versioned tables today requires a check-out. Adding a visual indicator to quickly identify a versioned table would eliminate an unnecessarily check-out thus saving time/effort.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 2 Under review