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Apptio Planning

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Plan attributes restricted for editing with role based permissions

At many customers, there are requests to have specific attributes only visible or edited by the core management team. Since this is not possible, many are maintaining multiple plans or are forced to maintain those aspects outside of Apptio. This w...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Review Details on Apptio Planning Maintenance Only Releases

As a tool owner, I'd like to be able to review the details on maintenance only releases in the Recent Releases Help section, so that I can see what changes are coming and if they might impact our daily operations.  Currently, the maintenance ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Improved Variance Analysis in ITP: Exportable and Visualised using Waterfalls

Currently, Variance Analysis is a great function with a limited use case. You can explain variances, but there is no visualisation out of it and it doesn't fit real world use cases.  A use case that could allow me to sell this process to stak...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Labor Adjustment % rate

I would like to raise and enhancement request for the Labour Adjustment % to be auto filled, driven by the labour reference data by location and employee type of internal. This would save any % not being filled out when users are adding new labour...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Labor Tab - Summary of Planned & Existing

Would like to a have a summary view within the labor tab that combines the existing and planned employees for a total organization/holistic view
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Variance Analysis grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name

As Variance Analysis is grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name it can create lines that look like duplicates to end user.  If different Account Category Codes share the same Account Category Name, currently a separ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Ability to bulk delete from ITP UI

Ability to bulk delete from ITP UI (something like using checkboxes *Assuming you can filter and select all* or using conditional statements)
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Finalizing the Plan Auto Approves the cost Object which is not correct behaviour

Case # 00341773 was closed stating that this is expected behavior and they asked us to raise an Idea.  The Problem is that client uses a new plan each month and the old one needs to be read only for the users. In order to make it re...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered