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Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data in widgets within Cloudability.

I am working on a widget I created in my dashboard on Cloudability. The widget I created is a table and it has different columns on there and I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data. It would look neater if...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Ability to share a link to a report that automatically applies global filters, date selections and tab selection

Problem:Right now if a colleague asks me a question that can be answered by an Apptio BI report with certain filters applied and looking at a specific tab, I need to:Sh Share the link to the report itself Tell them what tab to go to within the rep...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Custom colour palette in ApptioBI and Cloudability widgets

As a report builder in these two products I struggle to highlight what I want to, due to the standardised default colour palete. We get no ability to change whatever colours the widgets decide on. I work for a group of companies. Each has it's own...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

When duplicating an ApptioBI report, have the option to "bake in" any selected global report filters into all of the widgets as pre-visualisation filters, removing set filters in process.

There are several occasions when I take a generic report and wish to save it for others to use, but want to give them a report with fixed filters and less options. The idea is I have a generic report, I preselect the filters that configure what I ...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Page level filters

In the case of extensive reporting we might have different data on each page of the report. Thus, we need to have a page level filter, similar to dashboard level that only applies to current page and when using it does not affect other pages in th...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Provide "Effective" Rate reporting (not just on demand)

In both ABI and Cloudability rather than just show the potential "on demand" rates for rightsizing opportunities, show the "effective" rate taking into account the customer discounts / EDP / RI / commitments to make the outcomes more real for cust...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release