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There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Customer configurable ticker / banner that can be displayed to inform users of service / known issues

In the event for example that an issue is discovered with a gap in data, or an anomoly, it would be useful for us to have the capability to type a message that would be displayed as a banner / ticker when customers logon.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Support for AI services on Cloudability Sustainability Reporting

As part of our GreenAI initiative, we would like to be able to report on sustainability metrics for AI-related services on all three major cloud providers (eg: Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI). This is not currently available, could yo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Default currency setting per user

As a user I would like to choose my default currency instead of just having a certain administrator set a default value for the entire organization so that I can see my costs in my currency in all Cloudability modules, not just in Apptio Bi.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the cloud file ingress Datalink connector to support importing parquet files from AWS.

Enhancing the cloud file ingress connector to support parquet format would bring it closer to the level of functionality companies had with the multicloud connector in Datalink (Classic). The multicloud connector supported parquet format and many ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration