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Alphabetical sort of the freeze columns interface

easier end user experience to find the column(s) you are trying to freeze
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Filter based on "Memo" Type

Finding line items where a description contains a particular word.
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...

Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration