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Way of reporting workload optimization tasks & savings that aren't in scope for Cloudability Rightsizing

We’ve found a gap in how we report workload optimization savings that Cloudability doesn’t cover today. If an optimization is not a Rightsize Opportunity in Cloudability, then we cannot create a ticket, and so Rightsize ROI does not count the savi...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Make Utilisation data available for Azure customers

Currently utilisation data is not available in the reports blade for Azure resources. I believe this is because the utilisation data is not available in the billing export as it is for AWS. This is very confusing for customers who often see exactl...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature.

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature. Currently, receiving reports in PDF format and cannot find an option for CSV.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Filtering reference data in UI

It's not very easy to search for a specific line item in reference data tables, especially large tables. Adding a way to search/filter would be extremely useful to anyone who works with reference data. I'm envisioning something similar to the filt...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Future consideration

“near real time” data extract via event publishing to external webhook

Amex's reporting team is looking for "near real time" data extract via event publishing to an external webhook. Below are the list of requirements: What constitutes a "data change" from a business perspective: A data change refers to any update to...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 2 Submitted

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Editable Tables 2 Under review

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration