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TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio

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"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Evaluation of data errors is useless for future periods

If there are missing data in future period for monthly Data refresh cycle, the errors are generated. It is obvious that actual data for future period are not available, so error report here is dirty. In case we change to Ad/hoc Data refresh cycle,...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of calculations in Calc Management

Currently to either disable to enable stage calculating through Calc Management (Project Calculation Management) this is needed to be done manually. The idea would be the ability to set a schedule to either enable or disable stage calcs for indivi...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 4 Under review

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Email Distribution Enhancements

The email subscription feature has been very useful in report delivery since it's launch in November 2024. It would be very beneficial if we had the ability to set up subscriptions via AD groups, allowing the tenants or cloud program primes to add...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration