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Allow users to select only columns required from exports and enable that selection to be static

We export the data and import/upload into power bi models to enable efficient trending of opportunities. When exporting from Rightsizing you only have the option to export all data, we want users to have the option of just exporting the data that ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Extended organization of favorites with folders

It would be useful to give users the possibility to organize their favorites also with folders so they can more logically group favorites in function of their use/need. It would also be interesting to allow those folders then to be shared. This m...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Apptio BI

Capability to move Dimensions between Dimensions and Alternative Dimensions
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cloudability rightsize comment filter

Cloudability rightsize comment filter
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Scope level access needed for CSA UI

In IBM , we have multiple AWS master payers from different business units onboarded onto our CSA instance as different scopes. The stakeholders for these master payers would like to get access to the CSA UI, to see their savings, utilization etc. ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration