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Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Can we get the sustainability metrics like CO2 emissions and power consumption in Kwh directly from Cloudability into TBM Studio as part of the existing cloudability connector (cldy_monthly_**) ?

Right now you are providing cloud sustainability API supported by the cost reporting endpoints, but once used, it will lead to another extra table with our Apptio model. Also, I see that these 2 sustainability metrices ( but with blank values) are...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
9 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2