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Apptio Planning

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Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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)
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP Module: ITP> Expense > Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option

ITP Module: ITP Expense Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enhance Planning Bulk Delete Functionality

Recommend enhancing the bulk delete functionality in Planning to add a button to the 'Other' tab that allows users to select all available rows. This would save time in that users would not have to either select all lines individually or scroll th...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Consolidate Reference Data table entries into one entry via Change Identifiers or similar new process

As a Planning/Finance Administrator, I would like Planning (the tool) to to find and replace and, where appropriate, consolidate (the new feature) indicated identifier for all plans across time, regardless of whether the plan is open or closed. Th...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration