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Apptio BI

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Filter - show options based on current filter

When we filter a report based on multiple filters, if we select a Line of Business and then want to filter on a Business Unit, it would be good to see under Business Units only the BUs included in the LOB selected
29 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Incorporate Calendar Month in Custom Formula Calculated Metric

Calculated Metrics are being used to define the budget for a given month. We take a value and multiply it by the number of days in the month. We would like to be able to configure a calculated metric to be able to dynamically determine the number ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Ability to add percentage column in allocation table reports to understand the allocated percentage of each item.

As of today, we can create a report taking a cost metric as Cost(amortized) or Cost (Total) for a selected dimensions to list all items under the dimensions with their allocated cost. Requirement is to have an option to also add a column which is ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Make AWS ARN available in Cloudablity Datasets

Problem: Right now the Resource ID is available in the Cloudability data sets such as Cloudability Cost & Usage, however AWS ARN (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html). The ARN combines a lot of metadata into a ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted