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Enhanced Linked Report Drilling: Enable Cross-Dataset Navigation via Dimension Mapping

Currently, Apptio Cloudability's linked report drill-down functionality is limited to reports sharing the same source dataset. This proposal aims to extend this capability by introducing a "Dimension Mapping" function, allowing users to seamlessly...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Data export that triggers download directly in browser instead of having to wait for an email link

Problem:Right now when you generate a csv data export for a visual in an Apptio BI report, you get a pop up message to check your email. Then you have to go to your email and wait for the link to the download to arrive. Then open that back in your...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

In ApptioBI be able to customize what is displayed as x and y-axis titles in report graphs

Problem: Right now report axis titles are generated automatically and there is no way to change them. The terms used in data set dimension or measure names may not align with terms gularly used within the business, nor is there a way to add additi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Be able to configure Apptio BI pie and donut chart to display an error if the underlying data contain a negative number

Problem: Right now in ApptioBI pie and donut charts, if the underlying measure is a negative number, that number is converted to positive to determine the slice size and the negative value is displayed in the tool tip. This is really unintuitive t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Be able to restrict the report sharing options in Apptio BI so that a user can't “share with organization” or share with a specific role option

Problem: Right now any user can share a report they create with the entire organization, or with roles that are assgined to large numbers of users. This creates report sprawl, and makes report content governance and validation difficult to guarant...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Access Administration role permissions to enable View Only access for ApptioBI

Problem:Right now the minimum Apptio BI permission set enables all users to create their own reports from scratch or duplicate existing reports to customer further. There is no way to ensure all reports have been fully vetted and validated by subj...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration