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Filter option for waterfall charts in IT Planning

Being able to slice and dice waterfall charts in summary tab of IT Planning would be extremely useful and beneficial to view certain buckets of data. View uploaded file for which waterfall chart I am referring to. Just adding a filter option next ...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Text summary in Apptio BI report that depicts the status of the report in executive style

It is useful for management and one of the EGA leadership demands
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Submitted

Sorting the list of hidden columns in a table to facilitate unhiding one from a long list

What I experience: Often I have tables with many columns, most of which are not useful to the purpose I am working on. I normally try to get rid of these columns as early as possible to leave only the ones relevant for the task. Sometimes however ...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Different Decimal Precision Option for Non-Financial Numbers in Apptio Planning

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. We have our number format set to 0 decimal places in company profile as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this rounding, ...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Ability to round labor data while leaving all financial data alone

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. In our Company Profile, we have our number format set to 0 decimal places as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this round...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Support service based planning (quantity * rate)

Most customer already are planning services either from external providers or even internally. A functionality similar to what is provided in Labor and Labor Activitity tab would be needed: Similar to Labor Tab: Allow user to enter a unit rate a...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

Merge contents of standard tables based on editable tables

When merging a branch into the trunk, editable tables and their contents are merged, but any standard tables using the editable table as the source are not updated with the new contents from the branch. If you have made updates in the branch to th...
17 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Submitted

Pie charts to support multiple metrics

Pie charts to support multiple metrics, as is the case in the classic report studio.
17 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

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...
18 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Planning Extension Offset Update - Default to Next Month for All Amortization Types

I think it'd more aligned to user expectations if we were able to have the extension offset default to "Next Month" for all amortization types. We use Straight Line Even Periods, and even though the amortization calculation is not impacted by show...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted