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Support for Plotting Cost Variation (% or Absolute) in Widget Charts

Request Type: Feature Request Description: As a FinOps team member, I want the ability to visualize cost variation—either as a percentage change or absolute value change—rather than only viewing absolute costs on widget charts. This would help me ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Apptio AI Assistant to assist on Conversational Reporting

Apptio AI Assistant is an AI-powered IT finance expert that simplifies reporting, insights, and budgeting. Users can ask questions in plain language and get real-time, data-driven answers. With Generative AI and advanced analytics. Use Cases1. Con...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Reflect Sum of Highlighted Fields

To improve user experience when collaborating within the plan or forecast, have the ability to highlight fields in Expense Planning and Summary Tabs to get a sum of those fields (similar to excel functionality)
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to graph hourly cost data

We want to use Cloudabilty to look at hourly cost trends to see patterns over time throughout the day. The inability to do this is a serious limitation
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Undo or CTRL+Z Button

We are having a recurring question in our client about the possibility of having some sort of UNDO function. Sometimes they introduce a value in the wrong cell, overwriting the one present in the cell. When they find out the mistake, they have no...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP to CT - Publish to a specific month

When users are able to publish to a current month in ITP, there is no need for a DL's process to copy the published data from January of the current year to the current month of the current year to maintain actuals.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

API to programmatically set default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We currently have to go to the Users and Groups page to reset default dashboard and view for users manually. There should be an API to be set this programatically based on the user roles.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Is a defect