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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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AI assisted documentation writing

It would be great to have a document editor with an LLM chat side by side to create product documentation, use case descriptions, ... The user and the LLM can change the document contents and the workflow may be as follows: The user pasts a templa...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

AI Chat with all entities in tenant

The idea is a chat window where one can filter specific entity types, projects, timespans of entity creation/completion/... and then chat with that dataset. This would allow us to use the wealth of knowledge which is buried in TP to quickly find s...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Search 1 Future consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Allow anyone to create a flow filter in DI

Only Edit mode can be used to create filters in SevOne Data Insight for now, but It is bettor for customer to enable this in View mode as well. This is not the only reason, but it is because it seems that we will lose out to Cisco Secure Net Analy...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 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...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Allow Device Group Variables To Control The Map Widget

To help customers filter a global map down to a regional map.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration