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Apptio Costing

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Planned for future release

Email Subscription of Reports: Increasing Character Limit, adding various fonts, hyperlinks and dynamic date in email body

University of Pennsylvania is looking to set up an email subscription to more than 200 users who can view the email in a specific format (which includes a different font of the email body- with bold, hyperlinks, dynamic dates, font options). The c...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Future consideration

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Report Studio Under review

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

Add ability to bulk update Generated (Enrichment) Editable Tables like you can for Normal Editable Tables

Generated editable tables for enrichment are highly valuable but have a key limitation. Users need to be able to export, update values and reimport to allow bulk updates like you can for standard editable tables. Like for standard editable tables,...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 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 ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Future consideration

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Under review

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Needs more information