We are currently Cloudability users and looking to incorporate Apptio BI into our executive reporting. One feature that works well for us in Cloudability is the ability to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date', where the Start Date is fixed & the End Date rolls to be the current day. This allows us to set a start date that aligns to our Fiscal calendar (Jan 31 for this fiscal year) while being able to automatically see the most recent cost data.

In Apptio BI, I last Friday tried to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date' for Jan 31 - Aug 11 with the rolling checkbox selected. While this setting in Cloudability means I today see Jan 31 - Aug 15, in Apptio BI I am seeing a date range of Feb 4 - Aug 15, which means both the start & end date roll. 

Is there a way to replicate the date functionality in Apptio as we have in Cloudability? This is a pretty important date range to be able to see, and we are not going to have the capacity for someone to manually update date ranges on the dozens of graphs we need to build every day/week.
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There is a Date Range option called 'Custom Start Date to Date'. That should give you what you want (do not check Rolling). In general, I have found Apptio BI to be pretty buggy compared to the reporting in native CLDY. However, the Apptio BI visuals are more attractive. I've recently transitioned to using the Apptio BI visuals 99% of the time for reporting to leadership in the form of screenshots on PowerPoint slides (the only format I've found that our leadership will look at). Day-to-day tracking is still done with CLDY. The good news is they seem to be constantly updating Apptio BI so hopefully it will continue to stabilize. 

Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2022 11:39
From: Michael Barba
Subject: Apptio BI 'Rolling' Dates that Align to Cloudability Functionality

We are currently Cloudability users and looking to incorporate Apptio BI into our executive reporting. One feature that works well for us in Cloudability is the ability to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date', where the Start Date is fixed & the End Date rolls to be the current day. This allows us to set a start date that aligns to our Fiscal calendar (Jan 31 for this fiscal year) while being able to automatically see the most recent cost data.

In Apptio BI, I last Friday tried to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date' for Jan 31 - Aug 11 with the rolling checkbox selected. While this setting in Cloudability means I today see Jan 31 - Aug 15, in Apptio BI I am seeing a date range of Feb 4 - Aug 15, which means both the start & end date roll.

Is there a way to replicate the date functionality in Apptio as we have in Cloudability? This is a pretty important date range to be able to see, and we are not going to have the capacity for someone to manually update date ranges on the dozens of graphs we need to build every day/week.
#Cloudability

Hi @Jonathan White Thanks for your message, unfortunately in Apptio BI when I tried to select the 'Custom Start Date to Date'  yesterday without the Rolling checkbox selected, I now see August 16th as my end date instead of August 17th. 

I did get a reply back from an Apptio employee from a comment I cross-posted to the Apptio for All thread that confirmed this isn't working as intended, and they have file an internal ticket to fix. As you said, Apptio BI is being constantly updated so hopefully it is not too long before this is working as it is in Cloudability.
Original Message:
Sent: 08-16-2022 09:14
From: Jonathan White
Subject: Apptio BI 'Rolling' Dates that Align to Cloudability Functionality

There is a Date Range option called 'Custom Start Date to Date'. That should give you what you want (do not check Rolling). In general, I have found Apptio BI to be pretty buggy compared to the reporting in native CLDY. However, the Apptio BI visuals are more attractive. I've recently transitioned to using the Apptio BI visuals 99% of the time for reporting to leadership in the form of screenshots on PowerPoint slides (the only format I've found that our leadership will look at). Day-to-day tracking is still done with CLDY. The good news is they seem to be constantly updating Apptio BI so hopefully it will continue to stabilize. 

Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2022 11:39
From: Michael Barba
Subject: Apptio BI 'Rolling' Dates that Align to Cloudability Functionality

We are currently Cloudability users and looking to incorporate Apptio BI into our executive reporting. One feature that works well for us in Cloudability is the ability to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date', where the Start Date is fixed & the End Date rolls to be the current day. This allows us to set a start date that aligns to our Fiscal calendar (Jan 31 for this fiscal year) while being able to automatically see the most recent cost data.

In Apptio BI, I last Friday tried to set a 'Custom Start Date to Date' for Jan 31 - Aug 11 with the rolling checkbox selected. While this setting in Cloudability means I today see Jan 31 - Aug 15, in Apptio BI I am seeing a date range of Feb 4 - Aug 15, which means both the start & end date roll.

Is there a way to replicate the date functionality in Apptio as we have in Cloudability? This is a pretty important date range to be able to see, and we are not going to have the capacity for someone to manually update date ranges on the dozens of graphs we need to build every day/week.
#Cloudability