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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability should have unified approach to resolving tag conflicts for all cloud service providers

Currently Cloudability is treating empty tag values in Azure differently than in GCP as my organization is using multi cloud architecture, we would want to be able to apply same logic and expect same results for all the cloud providers that we use.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Bi-Directional Sync between incident's work_notes/journal across ServiceNow and AIOps

It would be better if we can sync the Work notes between ServiceNow and AIOps incident Notes/Activity. This would streamline incident management and improve the flow of information between both platforms.
25 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Submitted

VMWare integration creates resources that seem identical

The alert view shows an alert group (a group of alerts from the VMWare connector) with the following description:GROUP (1482 alerts) CD/DVD drive 1 is NOT_CONNECTEDit shows "1 resource" under the resource column. But actually this is 1482 differen...
25 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Submitted

The dimension = resource name, is not available under "cost" but only available under "usage"

To build cost reports to see resource name wise cost
26 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Increase Apptio BI limitation of 10 metrics and 15 dimension

Current Apptio BI metrics and dimensions have limitation and caps the report capability and functions.
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
26 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted