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Cloudability

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Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Planned for future release

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Cloudability Dashboarding/Reporting with Multi-View Email Notifications

Enhance Cloudability's reporting capabilities to allow users to configure email notifications for multiple views simultaneously. This could involve: Multi-view emails subscriptions - Allow users to configure/receive emails for each view user is pa...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage to be properly reflected in the tool

We’re interested in both Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage be properly reflected in the tool. We’re using Container Insights quite a bit now as we’re appreciating the functionality; however, we’re not able to do the comparison and track...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information

MultiCurrencyService - have latest conversion table at top of list ie: date descending order

When a user is working with conversion tables it would be a better solution to have the conversion tables in date descending order with the latest at the top.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Planned for future release

Cldy Forecasting - provide previous period in export as well as forecasted period

For reference when forecasting knowing the previous month vs current forecasted month would be worthwhile when exports are created.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Azure Utilization data

I suggest to make Azure Utilization data available in Apptio BI to build reports based on the data. And in addition to expose the data to the API.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2