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Apptio Planning

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Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

View Only for Plans in New Status

As a TBMA I would like the ability to be able to provide select users with a role that would allow them View Only access to plans that are in New Status.    I will know this is complete when a Cost Center Owner or person in a specially d...
almost 2 years 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

Enhance Line Item Code function to replace all and retain Line Item Codes

We reload our Labor and Assets data monthly in ITP.  This ensures that resources that are gone are removed, resources that change depts are moved and new resources are added.   We began to use Line Item Codes as a way to maintain a ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Manage all costs objects owned at one time

People who manage multiple cost objects have to manage each cost object separately today.  Customer would like the ability for users to manage all of the cost objects that they own at once.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to place where the YTD total is placed in ITP

Currently the YTD total column is only placed after the most recent month in the forecast.  I have users that would like to be able to pick where they place that to potentially see some actuals and future forecast, or only certain months of a...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Layout creation must included all mandatory fields

When mandatory field is hidden, users don’t know it must be completed and as a result the row does not get saved. Request is that layouts should only be able to be created that include all mandatory fields. Main issue here is line is not getting s...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enable contextual search in Custom Reference Data entries

Custom Reference Data entries should enable contextual search during entering on both Name and Code columns.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review