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Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure App Services

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Future consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Add "Product/Capacity Management" field to CDI data feed for complete cost management reporting

Third required field to complete JPMC's CDI migration requirements. This field works in conjunction with Product Family and Product/Physical Processor fields to support their comprehensive cloud cost reporting framework.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Add "Product/Physical Processor" field to CDI data feed to support comprehensive cloud cost analysis

This additional field is required alongside Product Family to complete JPMC's reporting requirements during their migration from MCC to CDI/ADM. The field supports their advanced cloud billing setup described as "the most advanced" implementation.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Add "Product/Capacity Management" field to CDI data feed for complete cost management reporting

Third required field to complete JPMC's CDI migration requirements. This field works in conjunction with Product Family and Product/Physical Processor fields to support their comprehensive cloud cost reporting framework.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted