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Bill and the On-Prem MongoDB Data

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted Thu January 09, 2025
How to allocate database costs to consuming applications? Often times, TBMAs need to import external data into the TBM engine to define cost allocation strategies based on consumption. In this example, Bill works with an application owner to define an allocation strategy for MongoDB database costs. *** "Hey, Bill. I'd like to talk about MongoDB ...
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Welcome to Our New Home on IBM TechXchange!

By Florence Matthews posted Wed October 30, 2024
Welcome! We are excited to welcome you to our new online community platform IBM TechXchange! This is your new hub for connecting and collaborating with Apptio product users. Why You’ll Love Being Part of This Community This community is designed to be a valuable resource for you throughout your journey with Apptio. 1. Learn from Peers ...
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Frontdoor UI Changes

By Katie Martin-Riddle posted Fri June 14, 2024
When you logged into Apptio today, you may have noticed an updated Frontdoor UI. We’re excited to bring you this more modern and simplified experience. We are aware there was a lack of prior communication regarding this change, and we apologize for that. We will take this opportunity to learn and work with our internal teams to communicate better in ...
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Monitoring Data Freshness of Table Uploads via Editable Table for dedicated table scope

By Karsten Leurs posted Wed January 24, 2024
CT has internal tools for checking data freshness, e.g. the OOTB reports in the Data Quality section and also some tools within TBM Studio. However with some clients we found the need for a custom solution where we only trace a certain scope of tables with custom rules, so we are not confusing with full list of tables + be able to focus on our own freshness ...
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Enhanced Access Administration General Availability Enablement

By Apptio Community Member posted Tue November 07, 2023
Hello all, Apptio is announcing the General Availability (GA) of Enhanced Access Administration on Thursday November 9th, 2023. This release delivers a comprehensive refresh of the existing look and feel of Frontdoor's Access Administration. In addition to aesthetic enhancements, we have extended functionality to improve usability and update our ...
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Model Fallout Report

By Nick Brandwood posted Fri June 16, 2023
The Data quality reports provide a view of dropout for the current month over serval objects (possibly only standard ones?). While this is useful, when I am working on a project I usually create a fallout report. This report is based upon two calculated metrics I create that are: Cost Fallout = Cost - .Assigned Cost Cost Fallout FY = Annual(Cost ...
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Upcoming Changes to Access Administration

By James Smith posted Wed May 31, 2023
Hello all, We are excited to announce the rollout of a series of platform enhancements users can expect over the upcoming months. First and foremost, we are releasing a redesign of our user and access management functionality, Enhanced Access Administration. With this release, Frontdoor’s Access Administration will receive a modernized look and feel, ...
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hey TBMAs, vote for this and save lots of time and pain! https://community.apptio.com/idea/table-column-navigation-component

By Apptio Community Member posted Thu January 05, 2023
Component to quickly scroll to a column and show hide. Idea Details - Apptio Community #TBMStudio
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Creating a Drill-Down Report

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted Thu November 03, 2022
@Rohit Gautham J asked about a video to create drill-down reports. As I couldn't find any, I asked Bill about this.​ He must have spoken to a friend of his, since he shared the following video: ​​ #Video #TBMStudio #BillTheTBMGuy
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Bill and the Time Machine

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted Mon September 19, 2022
Bill and the Time Machine How to keep several years’ worth of data without jeopardizing calculation times? In this episode, Bill explains an idea to keep online a reasonable amount of data, while still having access to past information. *** “Hey, Bill. I was trying to see my applications costs for the last three years, and couldn’t ...
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Bill and the Buttons

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted Thu June 30, 2022
A clean user interface that provides access to the most useful information is a critical part of the user experience for TBM applications. In this story, Bill explains how his TBMO eased user access to custom reports in Apptio. *** Rebecca Walker—manager of the TBM Office, and hence, Bill's boss—walked into his office and asked: "Hey, Bill. I ...
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Adding a Compact Slicer to a Report

By Doug Greer posted Sat March 26, 2022
I wanted to share this short 3-minute video by @Josh Roberto showing how to add a Compact Slicer to a report: #Reports #Video #TBMStudio
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Pivoting from Manually loaded data to Automated feeds

By Brad Giles posted Fri March 18, 2022
Overview This post provides guidance on how to minimize "pivot pain" during deliveries or integration of new data into Apptio (TBM Studio). Pivot pain is defined as the technical debt accumulated between manual ETL (done by the delivery team or TBMA) and fully automated data loads. Standard Procedure 1) Initial Upload of data into TBM ...
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Bill and the Buckets

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted Fri November 12, 2021
How does a TBM engine handle allocations? Bill explores the topics of Drivers and Allocations in this story. *** “Hey, Bill. There’s something I wanted to go through with you.” Ellie Nakamura was Bill’s TBMA counterpart in Finance. “Sure, Ellie. What is it about?” “I’m going through the TBM certification process, and yesterday I came across ...
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Need help to get Service Now CMDB data loaded

By Apptio Community Member posted Mon June 07, 2021
Hi All, The Scheduled CMDB Datalink job failed with the error - com.apptio.datalink.shared.engine.connector.framework.TaskExecutionException: Engine Failed to retrieve FrontDoor Info The error is from Apptio and might comes during execution. Not sure what would be the reason and any fix. Any one faced this issue, help me to work on the fix. ...
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