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View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Options for search box in Tables (Project Explorer)

Search box in Tables are now grouped by folder/category after r12.10.4. Most of our end users prefer to have a complete list of results rather than by category. Hopefully we can have an option to enable/disable search by category behavior. Thank you!
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 6 Delivered

Enhancements to the scheduling

Schedule 1: Send current month forecast to a daily reporting project daily  Schedule 2: Send current month forecast on specific days to cost transparency project. Schedule for day 1,19,30 somewhat like DL capabilities. Due to having multi...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Reports to be Accessed for NonCalculated Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Delivered

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered