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Cloudability

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Ability to Restrict Edit Permissions for Budgets in Cldy

Currently you cannot restrict who can edit a Budget in Cldy. It would be helpful if we could restrict users so that only the creator of the Budget (or assigned people) could edit the Budget, while other users could just utilize the Budget. This wi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Enhance Cloudability to Ingest Azure Invoice Tax and Credit Data(beyond CUR CSV)

Currently Cloudability ingests Azure Cost and Usage Report (CUR ) data through CSV exports (eg: apptio_actual_cost_daily_exports) . These CUR files exclude the tax and credit fields which are only available in the Azure Invoice (PDF) As a result ,...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised and hence tickets/cloudability issues can no longer be updated b...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Needs more information

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Planned for future release

Regarding the option to retrieve data in Pricing Currency instead of Billing Currency on Azure

When importing Azure cost data into Cloudability, the system currently uses the Billing Currency. However, it appears that Apptio BI uses the Pricing Currency instead. Because Cloudability relies on the Billing Currency, we must manually upload ex...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Filter - show options based on current filter

When we filter a report based on multiple filters, if we select a Line of Business and then want to filter on a Business Unit, it would be good to see under Business Units only the BUs included in the LOB selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration