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Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
23 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Can we have Load time indicator or progress bar to set expectations.

At times, reports in Apptio take significantly longer to load without any prior indication. For example, during a live screen-sharing session where we’re reviewing financials, switching to another report can trigger a long ‘Calculating…’ phase. In...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

New Process for Adding a Contract?

To add a contract, users currently need to navigate to the relevant tab, scroll to the bottom, or right-click to insert a row above or below. Suggested Improvement: Instead of manually inserting rows, what if a form popped up when cost centre owne...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration