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Apptio BI

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Export ApptioBI widget to PNG or JPEG

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

Ability to remove default date range from ApptioBI Report

Problem:Right now if an admin or report owner sets a default date range on an ApptioBI report in the global date range selector, there is no way to return to a state where a default date range is not set for that report. You can only update what t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow sorting and Top X result limits in ApptioBI stacked column graphs with two dimensions to be determined by total column measure height for the first dimension

The same concept applies to stacked bar graphs. Problem: Right now the sorting and Top X results limit are determined by the measure value for the the intersection of Dimension 1 and Dimension 2. This leads to odd sorting in the graph where the ta...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

csv data exports from ApptioBIvisuals with more than one layers should be delivered in a single file rather than a file per layer

Problem:Right now if a data export is generated for a graph visual with multiple layers configured, the export email will contain one file link per layer. For example, the S3 Storage Cost by Tier Graph in the AWS Services Overview report has seven...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Add cluster awareness for Aurora to Apptio BI Utilization Data

Customer likes the ability to show CPU utilization for RDS instances, but see the fact that the reporting is unable to provide cluster name, instances included in cluster, etc. as context to the instance level CPU utilization.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Hide data source cost and usage report (allocated) for certain users

Not all users necessarily understand the difference between the data sources and not that many will be using the cost sharing feature. Hence it should be possible to hide it for some users and show it for others.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Handle Zero or NA value in Calculated metric

We are using Insights to get notified if % change value is more than 10% over a period of time. To calculate % change over previous period, the logic used is: % change = (Current period cost - Previous period cost ) / Previous period cost The prob...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration