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Apptio Planning

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Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data.  Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Clarified verbiage for unsubmitted changes

Currently, when we indicate that there are unsubmitted changes for a Cost Object, we are essentially showing all CO's that are in "In Progress" status, whether or not there have actually been any changes in the CO. The verbiage of "unsubmitted cha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example  Ja...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Button to create logs for ITP performance

We have experienced ongoing slowness issues in IT Planning.  When submitting a ticket, we are told the only way a ticket can be researched is to take a video and provide a HAR file at the same time.  This takes a significant amount of ti...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review