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Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add cluster awareness for Aurora to Apptio BI Utilization Data

Customer likes the ability to show CPU utilization for RDS instances, but see the fact that the reporting is unable to provide cluster name, instances included in cluster, etc. as context to the instance level CPU utilization.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Hide data source cost and usage report (allocated) for certain users

Not all users necessarily understand the difference between the data sources and not that many will be using the cost sharing feature. Hence it should be possible to hide it for some users and show it for others.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Apptio BI: group by week

Like Cloudability dashboard and report, a group by week will be helpful in Apptio BI dashboard to smooth daily variation but provides better granularity than monthy grouping
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Migrating to ApptioBI

This will be done automatically 2024 S1 (Apptio will give us around 6 months to check that everything is OK)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration