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Apptio Planning

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IT Planning Multi-Year Reference Data Option

As a TBMA supporting IT Planning, we have a use case for enabling multi-year functionality as it relates to our reference data, specifically Labor Rates and Labor Allocation Rules.  Our FP&A team is currently forecasting 3 years within a ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data. In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from being publ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Event Log with more Information

The Event Log in ITP is quite useful.  Just when Managers delete a line, we simply get the information that a line has been deleted. There's no additional information on what the data looked like previously.  Please add more context to ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to filter on memo data types in ITP

Add the ability to filter on "memo" data types
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release