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Apptio Datalink:::Make datalink fiscal calendar aware to improve configuration experience

When selecting a source or destination month in Datalink connectors, all selections are in calendar month/year. This can cause mistakes and confusion for customers that have fiscal calendars other than Jan through December. The most common error i...
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Default time period roll forward options

This idea is to add a configuration to automatically roll forward the default time period in TBM Studio projects. Currently this can only be done manually. It would be helpful to be able to set a rule like current month - 1, or current month, so t...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow weighting by fields with mix of positive and negative numbers

Currently within TBM Studio, if you create an allocation, it is really tempting to choose "weight by number" or "weight by metric" to allocate a quantity. However, if there is ANY chance that the column providing the weighting will have a mixture ...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Group metrics into folders

The project explorer lists metrics alphabetically without respect for use-cases. This idea is to introduce the ability for a TBM Administrator to group metrics into folders by use case. This would help people creating reports to select the appropr...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
2 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data anomaly detection configuration options

The current Anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio helps identify when loaded data changes. This idea suggestion is to add more configurable options to this feature. Specifically for each dataset I would suggest being able to configure a percent ...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted