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Commitment Support for Azure Dedicated Host

Only the compute costs are included with the Dedicated host. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations are. If we dont build this log...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Data Explorer

A reservation covers the markup charges. A reservation doesn't apply to compute, networking, or storage charges associated with the clusters. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask wher...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance

Covers SQL Managed Instance. Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. The SQL license is billed separately. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional re...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance

Commitment Support for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Data Factory

A reservation covers integration runtime cost for the compute type and number of cores that you buy. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recomm...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Allow people to close multiple RightSizing ROI Tickets in one go

As an owner/tracker of many RightSizing ROI tickets I would like to be able to close a group of them in one go. I currently have to visit each in turn. When I have 10's of them to close, all with small values it is very labour intensive.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration