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Apptio Planning

Enhance the Extension depreciation method to support year-wise extension and allocation instead of applying only after the asset end date.

Currently, the Extension method only distributes the remaining amount evenly after the asset end date, which limits flexibility for multi-year depreciation planning. Adding support for year-wise extension and allocation would provide more accurate...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Advanced Labor Allocation Rules - caps and floors on rules (eg x% capped at $2000, or y% but at least £30, etc)

It would be very useful to be able to specify minimum/maximum values for an allocation rule to produce Some percentage-based costs start or stop entirely at certain absolute £ values. EG we have a company car scheme worth 10% of salary, capped at ...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Advanced Labor allocation Rules - %age of another rule's result (eg add tax to pension)

We have a problem in our Labor cost allocations where some costs have National Insurance (assume 15%) applied on top, eg annual bonus. In most cases elsewhere in the company, this looks like this:(Salary * 115%) * (bonus%) = total bonus payment. I...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Filter option for waterfall charts in IT Planning

Being able to slice and dice waterfall charts in summary tab of IT Planning would be extremely useful and beneficial to view certain buckets of data. View uploaded file for which waterfall chart I am referring to. Just adding a filter option next ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Different Decimal Precision Option for Non-Financial Numbers in Apptio Planning

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. We have our number format set to 0 decimal places in company profile as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this rounding, ...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Planning Extension Offset Update - Default to Next Month for All Amortization Types

I think it'd more aligned to user expectations if we were able to have the extension offset default to "Next Month" for all amortization types. We use Straight Line Even Periods, and even though the amortization calculation is not impacted by show...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Create dedicated custom Entities in ADM

It would be good to create a dedicated custom Entity with the "ApptioOne Cost" as a subscribing application. Then we can use it for exporting data from ITP to CT into a different dataset than "ITPF Forecast". Whereas the standard Entity "Financial...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Ability to round labor data while leaving all financial data alone

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. In our Company Profile, we have our number format set to 0 decimal places as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this round...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Additional Columns in Line Item Filters

It would be beneficial to add further fields to the Column Option in Line Item Filters (e.g. Cost Center).This way it would be possible to filter out e.g. outdated Cost Objects from the list of selectable items.
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

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