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Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

ServiceNow integration for Rightsizing ROI

While Apptio Cloudability has now removed the Admin role from CldyUser_Script user role for Servicenow integration with rightsizing ROI , Farmer’s has identified a concern with the current integration approach, which involves direct access to data...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to show more decimal places

Hello, Cigna would like to raise an enhancement request to add the ability to increase decimal places beyond 2 within ApptioBI and/or Cloudability. Such as $0.0005.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Generate and make available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) eAssembly image for use to deploy SevOne products

During an evaluation with a customer for possibly cloud migration options we had looked at AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. OCI is currently the one that based on initial investigation and capabilities for our customers needs. This is in response to the B...
7 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only access and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peop...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Future consideration