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Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Custom Business Metrics on True Cost Explorer

I have had a few prospects and customers ask if they could use custom business metrics in True Cost Explorer since the BMs are their main way of reporting out spend.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Planned for future release

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

To have the possibility to download a business metric into an excel file

Some departments are not familiar with reading a .json file and having an export into excel would be much easier for them
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Allow to Adjust Tag Explorer - Untaggable Spend

The Untaggable spend KPIs do not allow the ability to exclude products that passthrough a resource ID but are not taggable. Therefore, the KPI values displayed as is do not provide an accurate depiction of the dollars or percentage of Untaggable S...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Show Cost on the Commitment Portfolio table

Currently there are a couple of extra clicks to open a separate report to get to the cost during the selected Reporting Range for the RI's or Savings Plans. Would be nice to have the Cost as another column next to Unrealized Savings.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Needs more information

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Needs more information