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Apptio BI

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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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

More than one possible date range on the layover chart

Currently, it is only possible to have one type of range in the layout, which is in the first layer. When we add more than one layer, we cannot add a different range. For example, if I am in a column of daily expenses, and I would like to enter th...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

BI - Ability to see who is subscribed to or accessing Reports

Admins need a way to see who is subscribed to or accessing/viewing the report/dashboard to allow for notification if report/dashboard is planned for deletion. When personnel change roles or leave company, we are stuck with old reports that can't b...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3

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 ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

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.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Ability to hide "Visualization Default" option in Environment Name drop down menu from specified roles

Problem: As part of a recent release the Environment Name menu was made visible to user when accessing Apptio BI reports via the Cloudability Standard tile. In addition a new option "Visualization Default" was added for all users. This "Visualizat...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Functionality already exists

Add more decimals to the apptio BI dashboard

Add more decimals to the apptio BI dashboard
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review