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Budgets & Forecasts

Need to have a global overview and detailed per view: · Consumed (since the beginning of the fiscal year) · Budget (by fiscal year) · Forecasts (at the end of the fiscal year) Budgets are not shared in the interface but managed user by user except...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Alerting

Each user has to create his own alerts. There is no possibility to create default alerts. Need to be able to create specific alerts for rightsizing / budget / forecast to a group / a predefined list linked to a view A single point of configuration...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Mouseover to give column explanations

Hi all,  we use a wide range of columns in APPTIO Planning, which at time can be confusing to end users.  We would like to give end users some more input and thought something like a mouseover-functionality would be a great way to show ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Functionality already exists

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Ability for users to manage email notifications.

Ability for users to be able to opt in or out of receiving emails from Apptio.  
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Help functionality improvements.

Currently, the only help available takes you to the generic Apptio hello screens. This is not useful for our users because it in no way reflects the CBA model or reports or with CBA specific information. Suggestion: Ability to add field descriptio...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted