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Apptio BI

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Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Ability to adjust the fiscal year & quarters when the business's fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year

The company I'm with Kroger, but I've worked for other companies who's fiscal year didn't follow the calendar year. Because of that Apptio BI and even Cloudability Reports should have the ability to adjust those dates to what suits the company. It...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Allow custom metric reporting without a primary dimension defined

Problem: I have several custom metrics defined in my Cost Transparency data set. I would like to be able to show both grand values and trended breakdowns per month for a selected time frame. Right now when I try to build that summary I get the err...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Export ApptioBI widget to PNG or JPEG

This will be useful for including ApptioBI graphs in presentations rather than using a screenshot.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to “exclude” checked items in Apptio BI report global filter

Problem: Currently global report filters only have "include" functionality. That is items checked in the filter are included in the report summaries. However, there are cases where users want to exclude all but a small number of options. Right now...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration