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Option to not allow circular dependencies

End user flexibility
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals?  It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals? It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements There are some capabilities in this space that highlight...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Databricks Catalog & Schema shoudl be configurable.

Customer requests that the catalog and schema should be configurable, since it’s more of a semantic / logical model rather than anything that should really be significant on your end. On our end, we have already changed the table to a view and it ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

Support double -type chars

Customer wants to add the new feature with specification which allows dimension names to be created using only double-byte characters
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Needs more information