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View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

IOPS & Throughput Added to Workload Optimization Calculations

Cloudability Rightsizing recommendations are based primarily on CPU, Memory and GPU utilization (in the case of A2 and G2 instances). However, it’s important to note that throughput and IOPS characteristics are not currently factored into these re...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

When users update a file through a reportwith different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Adding Azure SQL Elastic Pools data to Turbonomic

this will help us with the monitoring of our elastic pool database we have in Azure & plan any costing improvements that are needed
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted