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Apptio BI

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BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Bring Cloudability up to the levels of its competitors in sustainabiity reporting

I have reviewed the carbon reporting capabilities of Cloudability and realised that there are some huge gaps when compared to market leaders such as Sopht, Greenpixie, Tailpipe and even Cloud Carbon Footprint. Cloudability doesn't seem to report o...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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 ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Needs more information

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

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

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

Ability to expand the size and full-screen of the drill table results popup

Problem:Right now the size of the drill table pop-up in an Apptio BI report is fixed. Drill tables with many columns are difficult to read and navigate in the current pop-up size. Request:Allow a report view to drag a corner of the drill table pop...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Show specific data range included as “previous period” in visuals with a previous period comparison enabled

Problem:Right now when you have a visual with a "compare" to "previous period" enabled, the previous period metric in the visual is just labeled "previous period" and doen't state what the previous period includes. Request:To provide clarity and r...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to sort my measure value in visualizations where data has Date Range: View By option other than None selected

Problem:Right now when data is grouped by day, month, etc. the data can only be sorted by the dimensions alphabetically in the Edit UI and for a report view. This means as a report owner I can't display the most costly items at the top of the tabl...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted