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Apptio Planning

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...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Introduce a “Current Fiscal Year” default KPI display option in expense tab so summaries automatically align to the active fiscal year while still allowing users to change the timeframe as needed

Today, Apptio KPI summaries can display unexpected totals depending on individual user configuration (e.g., First Year of Plan, Selected Timeframe, or Rolling 4 Quarter Forecast). This often results in dashboards continuing to show prior‑year valu...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Edit Asset Loads by Month

I would like to have the ability to load assets by the purchase price and also edit by month if need be. Currently today the monthly allocations is controlled by the purchase price and then straight-lined by a reference table. I would like the abi...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

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...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

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...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

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 ...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Filtered import to include existing and planned

With the new filtered import we would like to see the ability to filter on the labor tab for existing and planned to then use the replace all functionality.
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

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...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Need the ability to turn off widgets that are not being populated

We are currently launching our Planning instance with cost center owners and our environment only contains OpEx expenses with no labor data (due to some finance team concerns) so we have an empty Labor widget on our dashboard. I understand that TB...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

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