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Apptio Planning

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Add ability to apply cost object permissions for a user to all plans

When adding a new user, the global cost object permissions are setup and will apply to plans created afterward. When adding a new user, we always want to grant them access to existing plans. Currently, this involves editing each plan's settings to...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 3 Delivered

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Plan years from 6 years to 10 years

Hello.I have an request.Is it possible to expand 6 years to 10 years of 1 plan of IT Planning?Because our IT division is required to submit 10 years plan to corporate strategy division.Current ITP's 6 years have a problem to make 10 years pla...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Delivered

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Planning row deletion

We use planning to store a lot of rows/transactions. Over time we accumulate a lot data and some rows aren't needed anymore. I think it would help with performance if we could delete the rows we don't need anymore. Usually, that requires exporting...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Request variance explanation when line item does not exist in comparison plan

On behalf of Bjarne Sandholdt from Danfoss, I request the following enhancement on ITP Variance Analysis: Require providing an explanation for the variance in a project, when it falls within designated threshold, also when the line item exists i...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered