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Enhance Variance Analysis to group by the Project Hierarchy

Variance Analysis by the project hierarchy would be useful to see a high-level overview of what is forecasted by Project ID/Portfolio compared to what is budgeted/actually occurring. We're trying to drive adoption of portfolio views by expanding o...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

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

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Future consideration

Ability to create a filter on Contract Expiry Dates for xx number of months, instead of just a date

We want to have layouts and filters to be able to quickly see when contracts are expiring in xx number of months. At the moment, the filter is just entering in a date, which is not dynamic enough as you roll through months. Can this be uplifted to...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release