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Apptio Planning

Add a look up feature for Currency in Planning.

We have over 70 currencies and it's difficult to find a currency. They are not in any specific order and the list is long. Adding a look up search feature would be a huge improvement for our end-users.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Filtering reference data in UI

It's not very easy to search for a specific line item in reference data tables, especially large tables. Adding a way to search/filter would be extremely useful to anyone who works with reference data. I'm envisioning something similar to the filt...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Allow greater flexibility for labor planning by allowing for flexible schedules by month, for example, by giving the ability to spread cost based upon number of Sundays in a month.

This would be useful because currently I have the 4 week versus 5 week months and I can only get around this by creating a report and importing the report into external financials. This prevents me from doing some analysis by person since my costs...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Allow Apptio KPI summary (e.g., CAPEX Total and Project Total) to be configurable or replaceable with metrics that better match business usage

Apptio plan summary KPIs currently display fixed tiles such as CAPEX Total and Project Total, which are automatically populated based on forecast plan data. However, in IBM CIO organization these metrics are not actively used, resulting in dashboa...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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 ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Coloration of lines in new view

There's a need to change the look of the new view so that you have coloration between the lines similar to that in old view because in the new view, everything's white.The gray, blue coloration helps them to choose the right line to forecast on.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Align Cross‑Charge deduction to the Resource’s default Project (Labor tab) instead of the activity Project

In Apptio Planning, when a cross‑charge is generated from the Labor Activity tab, the resulting charge and chargeback lines on the Summary tab both correctly reflect the Project selected on the Labor Activity entry. However, this creates a project...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Custom Unique Fields for priorization activities

We want managers to rank lines in their department from 1...n. e.g. Manager from department xyz would use identifiers "xyz-001, xyz-002, xyz-003, ..." to assign to each line item. Each code must only be used once (and in best case, as this would b...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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