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Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

URL link field

We would like to a add a field which is a URL link to supporting documentation
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Plan start date should also give an option to select next year & month

It helps users to look at previous years actuals and perform forecast in the current plan.
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add automatic creation/modification system fields for to each plan row

Clients often ask for fields that are easily viewed in the expenses table view to identify who created or modified the row and when. Please add the following automatic system fields to capture that detail. Audit logs are only available to admins a...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension. Unique numbers are assigned to our plan line items, and all actual line items are tagged accordingly. Currently, actuals are imported using these unique numbers, which...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Import actuals as Actual in Forecasts

Importing actuals as 'Other' in forecasts confuses end users. We typically reserve the 'Other' tab for planning purposes for our other costs, distinct from costs planned in the 'Contracts' tab. Importing actuals as 'Actual' and using a different p...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 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 ...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP – Custom Department Drop-Down

In my company we limit access to cost center of own responsibility. We have cost center managers with cost center reponsibilities in different Hierarchies. Those don't have no possibility to review all cost centers in their responsibility with Pla...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release