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Apptio Planning

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To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to create your own additional 'tabs' based on the 'other' tab functionality

The 'other' tab starts to grow in volume, and often becomes a 'catch all' for expense types. If we have specific categories that these costs can be broken down into, it would be great if we could separate onto another tab and rename to be more app...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to customise the Summary tab - drills and KPI's

the Summary Tab - Waterfall and graphs are very useful but would be could if we could hide some of the KPI's eg. Capex and update the drill columns. Our users really find this report useful but would be more widely accepted if we could update the ...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to only allow certain user groups to import data to Planning

Importing directly to the system has risks related to overwriting the data, and an average user is not capable or trained to be able to complete this reliably. We would like for this option to be only with Admin, or select users at Admin discretion
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to load customised public views at a plan-level, rather than system-wide shared

We have multiple user types that will not share the use of the same plans, and so we would like to customise the public views each of the users can see by plan. Currently this is set/shared for all Plans within Planning.
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP Module: ITP> Expense > Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option

ITP Module: ITP Expense Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration