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Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Sort on Cost or Usage when viewing costs by date dimension

Currently, we are not able to sort by cost or any usage metric when viewing a visual by a date dimension while using Cloudability data. As an example, if I want to see Daily Costs in January, I can not sort from largest to smallest account spend b...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Track rightsizing cost savings for optimization

As discussed on Slack with Lisa Harnett and the team, NVIDIA's resource optimization recommendations could track the rightsizing resource better by tracking the new resource ID. Currently "if you do a blue/green deployment (and the new resource ID...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

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