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Cloudability

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Customer configurable ticker / banner that can be displayed to inform users of service / known issues

In the event for example that an issue is discovered with a gap in data, or an anomoly, it would be useful for us to have the capability to type a message that would be displayed as a banner / ticker when customers logon.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Add Status Indicator in CLDY UI to confirm that cost data for previous days is fully uploaded/processed

It would be useful to have an indicator in CLDY UI which confirms the status of billing data uploading/processing. Currently users have to create reports (e.g. KPI or trend graph) to compare costs on a daily basis by Vendor (e.g. yesterday cost vs...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Support multiple organizations in GCP during credentialling

In GCP a construct called organizations exists. These are similar to Azure tenants whereby a domain name is wrapped around a set of projects. We need to be able to support multiple organizations during the credentialling process in Cloudability. A...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Allow seeing and credentialing Azure subscriptions in Cloudability even if they have no cost data, so commitments purchased in "commitment-only" subscriptions can be ingested/displayed

Some customers create dedicated "commitment-only" linked accounts or subscriptions in which they only purchase reserved instances and savings plans but don't operate resources. This is a best practice for mature FinOps organizations because it max...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Launch Date for EBS Snapshots

This will help the customers to sort and action of the EBS Snapshots which are present for a long time.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration