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Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Generate a file output without a header row on the csv file

This would be useful for our automation of our chargeback process. This automation runs from Cloudability through SFTP to our Nationwide Finance system and the system can not accept a file with a header row.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Tailor the views for observer role with a defined scope to only show the entities defined in the target group

Integration: On-prem VMware integration. Entity type: Virtual machine In large enterprise, the hypervisor, clusters and nodes are maintained by a centralised team. This team is responsible for automation, moving VMs to remove contention, maintain ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

and or statements in filter

When creating filters in Apptio BI you are unable to create a combination of and en or statements. Hence you need to create several statements to achieve this. As an example i have this statement below. It would me much more efficient if we can ne...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Search: Remember last filters. Save filter presets. Recent searches as suggestions

Don't set Order to 'Relevance' by default. Don't set Projects&Teams to 'All' by default. Please add the ability to save search presets for faster searching. 
over 7 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Easier Way to Identify Drill Down Reports

We recently had Apptio perform a Technical Health Assessment and we received a list of reports that were recommended to make inactive.  Many of them were drill down reports which are hard to identify from the Apptio UI,  It would be a he...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure / User Interface 11