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Apptio Planning

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Ability to create a filter on Contract Expiry Dates for xx number of months, instead of just a date

We want to have layouts and filters to be able to quickly see when contracts are expiring in xx number of months. At the moment, the filter is just entering in a date, which is not dynamic enough as you roll through months. Can this be uplifted to...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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.
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

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)
about 2 months 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 months 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.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Give the possibility to copy/duplicate several budget lines in one action

Currently, we can only duplicate one line. Goal is to be able to copy/duplicate several lines in one action. Maybe possible to implement it with the new view thanks to the CheckBox selection present at each line ?
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
4 months 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...
10 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...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release