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Apptio

Add a look up feature for Currency in Planning.

We have over 70 currencies and it's difficult to find a currency. They are not in any specific order and the list is long. Adding a look up search feature would be a huge improvement for our end-users.
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Allow Apptio KPI summary (e.g., CAPEX Total and Project Total) to be configurable or replaceable with metrics that better match business usage

Apptio plan summary KPIs currently display fixed tiles such as CAPEX Total and Project Total, which are automatically populated based on forecast plan data. However, in IBM CIO organization these metrics are not actively used, resulting in dashboa...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Custom Unique Fields for priorization activities

We want managers to rank lines in their department from 1...n. e.g. Manager from department xyz would use identifiers "xyz-001, xyz-002, xyz-003, ..." to assign to each line item. Each code must only be used once (and in best case, as this would b...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Adding additional decimal places to adjustment percentage on labor tab

Currently on the labor tab, you are able to export the labor tab and adjust the number of decimal places that are exported from the adjustment % columns. however when you import, there is a limit of 4 decimal places. I am requesting that this get ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Allow greater flexibility for labor planning by allowing for flexible schedules by month, for example, by giving the ability to spread cost based upon number of Sundays in a month.

This would be useful because currently I have the 4 week versus 5 week months and I can only get around this by creating a report and importing the report into external financials. This prevents me from doing some analysis by person since my costs...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Future consideration

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add possibility to eliminate the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value

It would be great if there will be added a possibility to eliminate ( filter out) the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value. Unfortunately, there is no other possibility at this time other than manually deleting line items within Planning and...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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