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Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Submitted

Adding in the ability to use formulas in Apptio Planning.

I would like to discuss the idea of adding in the ability to create formulas within Apptio Planning. In NatWest we would like to be able to use our the Labour and associated cost data to calculate an internal day rate cost for our staff, this Day ...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Improve Extension Adjustment on Contracts tab for YoY Changes

Currently, when applying the extension adjustment in coordination with the Extend feature on the contracts tab, it is applying this percentage to the first extension, but not future years. This means that if clients are trying to multiyear plan an...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Suggest that Plan Level Permissions is a user selected preference in the Company Profile

Would be beneficial during deployment phase to have this disabled as the permissions is yet to be determined and multiple plans are created. Establishing the same view across plans and over time is diffult to manage. When handover is completed, cu...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Add confirmation pop-up before publishing a plan to Apptio Costing

If I select Plans in Apptio Planning and select "Publish to Apptio Costing..." in the three-dots-menu, the publishing process starts immediately.As there is a high risk to click on this command by accident, it would be great to have a confirmation...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Under review

Plan-level permissions should have a way to sync with the global permissions

Currently (Planning v 1.x) when a Plan is created, it takes the global permission set as a temlate, and keeps it. When we do an update - adding a new user, removing users, changing who edits which Cost Object, etc - this has to be made in every op...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

An enhancement to allow users to land on the last edited or last viewed plan by default.

Currently, Apptio Planning defaults to the Active plan upon login, which disrupts workflow continuity. We propose an enhancement to allow users to land on the last edited or last viewed plan by default. This change will improve usability, reduce n...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Determine the Summarization for Contracts Tab

Being able to determine the level of granularity that is brought into the Summary tab from the Contracts tab, similar to what is possible for labor. When there is a custom dimension that is a unique identifier, it is being left off of the summary ...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Forecast Details Tab next to Summary and Actuals tabs in the Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen

The Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen currently includes a Summary tab and Actuals tab. The Summary tab is a waterfall of Budget to Forecast by the selected dimension, but users would like to easily view relevant budget detail ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release