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Apptio

Enable Waterfall Chart Data Export to Excel and CSV

Waterfall charts are commonly used to explain financial, operational, and planning variances by visually presenting the drivers behind movements between two values. While the visualisation provides an effective way to communicate changes, the unde...
about 6 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Add Snowflake Egress Connector to Datalink

The customer would like an OOTB option to egress Apptio data directly to Snowflake. The high level use case is another team is leveraging snowflake and would prefer to use snowflake for their automated solution. Customer is aware of alternative op...
1 day ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Add native OAuth 2.0 Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC / password) grant type support to the Datalink REST 2.0 Service connector

The Datalink REST 2.0 Service connector currently supports the Authorization Code and Client Credentials OAuth 2.0 grant types, but not the Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC / password) grant. Some enterprise source systems require ROPC fo...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Functionality already exists

User filter should automatically restrict results after search

We are experiencing an issue for our customer in Apptio Planning within Plan Settings > User Permissions. When opening the filter for the User Name column, a popup is displayed containing a search field, a Select All option, and the list of ava...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Show Read-only Variance Analysis for Forecast Plans in Final State

Currently Variance Analysis data and commentary is hidden when a forecast plan is moved to the Final state. A message appears saying "Variance Analysis is only available for Forecast plans in New and Open states.". Please change this to show the v...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Functionality already exists

Allow recipients to be CC'd in Email Subscriptions

Currently we select recipients for Email Subscriptions for a report. Apptio ends up sending individual emails to recipients. There are cases where we want to send monthly Cost Center reports to respective Cost Center Owners, and keep the FBP/Finan...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Add ability to have multiple runs for 'Recurring Updates for Editable Tables'

At the moment, Editable Tables can only have one schedule for recurring updates. At most, this can be run hourly. However, we have a use case where we would like recurring updates to occur every 15min so that it's more 'real time' for our end user...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Editable Tables Planned for future release

Ability to filter the rows with errors in Editable table

Currently, users input data into editable tables and often rely on the ‘Upload’ functionality for bulk data loads. However, when there is any error in data loaded, the portal does not provide a consolidated or prominent view of these issues. Inste...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Editable Tables Submitted

Add UPSERT capability to datalink (allowing for append of only new or updated records into TBM Studio)

This customer would benefit from the UPSERT capability so that when they query ServiceNow tickets, they can only add records to Apptio that have been ADDED or UDPDATED based on a date field. Today they have to append in all records and then de-dup...
19 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted