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Cloudability

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Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
19 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Include hourly metrics for AWS Sagemaker and AWS DynamoDB in billing data

Adding this metric will allow us to see reserved coverage vs onDemand coverage.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Needs more information

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted