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Apptio Planning

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Import Baseline Data into external Financials

Currently only baseline data is supported to import as financials and external financials is not supported. We would like the option to import into both.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Planning Export format flexibility to CT

Requesting within the ADM scheduling to have the flexibility to select different export formats for forecast and budget plans to CT.  Whether this is in ADM or the company profile we would like to for example to have: Budget to export i...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Adapt results of ITP filter to existent filters

If for example we have Department A with expenses (A1, A2, A3) and Department B with expenses (B1, B2), when you try to apply a filter on expenses, you see a list that contains A1, A2, A3, B1, B2.  It would make more sense if, having selected...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enable/Disable the anual/quarterly columns

I know that they can be hidden, but client keeps complaining that they accidentally press the year or quarter column, and then it linearizes the value present in the year column into the 12 months, overwriting any value that might be manually regi...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Deselect Automation for Labor in Planning

The main end users who utilize Planning desire the ability to "turn off" certain automation features/calculations that Planning performs. Specifically for this use case, users would like the ability to not have the monthly projections "overwritten...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ITP – Department Drop-Down

Expand the Department drop-down box to allow for more characters, improving visibility for all users.
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Change Legend Label on IT Planning Summary Dashboard Spend Trend

Please modify the IT Planning - Summary Dashboard - Spend Trend widget to display the selected plan title instead of the word "Plan" and make the label match what is shown on the Spend Waterfall widget. Background: We are using the ITP Summary Das...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review