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Apptio Planning

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View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Ability to set default plan for all cost center owners

Most of the times, we have to close existing plan to make way for reference data updates before creating a new one. Old plan we will archived it with a different name but the problem is when cost center owners login to Apptio planning, they are st...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Delivered

Add compare feature for Labor

On other parts of the planning section in Apptio you can compare different plans to each other. Could we get that functionality in the labor section of the tool?
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

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...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Ability to have one role for Submit and one role for Edit. Currently they are combined

We often have delegation whereby the input users are not ultimately the submitters, and we don't want to accidently submit bulk plans where there is no authority to do so. A system control to prevent this, would be helpful for edit and submit duties.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP Module: Add comparison options to ITP>Expense>Labor Tab (similar to Expense>Summary Tab)

ITP Module: Add comparison options to ITP Expense Labor Tab (similar to Expense Summary Tab)
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 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...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered