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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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Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals?  It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals? It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/
27 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Capturing S3 Folder Costs

Hi Team, We are trying to see costs at a folder level inside of S3 Buckets. Cloudability doesn't have the ability to divide the cost of each S3 bucket by each individual folder path. Additionally, AWS doesn’t allow you to put tags on the folders, ...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Dates as columns so we can see month-over-month changes ( Side by Side view )

Cannot do today but checking on status here. Bala: Can we validate if the pivot table capability in Apptio BI can support this ? I am not sure if CLDY datasource currently is supported. But something to validate
27 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Global fiscal year, so date range for quarter follows the fiscal year setting. Then forecasting can also show for fiscal year, not calendar year / month.

Support for CFP data in BI.But required in either TC or CLDY.
27 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics. To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of trending ...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Improved Cost Anomaly Detection

Our team uses AWS’ anomaly detection service within their Cost Management portal. It would be excellent if we could get this same functionality from Cloudability and if the anomaly team might be able to improve their anomaly detection to be more l...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Save option SNMP V3 credentials and WMI credential

Will allow automatic discovery of devices and automatic updating in case of changes. Makes SNMP V3 work the same as SNMP V2 - WMI same as SNMP per customer
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration