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Cloudability

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Custom colour palette in ApptioBI and Cloudability widgets

As a report builder in these two products I struggle to highlight what I want to, due to the standardised default colour palete. We get no ability to change whatever colours the widgets decide on. I work for a group of companies. Each has it's own...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Create count function

Have a metric function in order to pull count. Currently we can only gather information from metrics such as cost, usage, and sustainability. From count function, we would want to identify the number of accounts.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration