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Apptio Planning

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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 ...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Forecast Details Tab next to Summary and Actuals tabs in the Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen

The Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen currently includes a Summary tab and Actuals tab. The Summary tab is a waterfall of Budget to Forecast by the selected dimension, but users would like to easily view relevant budget detail ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Determine the Summarization for Contracts Tab

Being able to determine the level of granularity that is brought into the Summary tab from the Contracts tab, similar to what is possible for labor. When there is a custom dimension that is a unique identifier, it is being left off of the summary ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Review the impacted forecast lines updated & deleted by reference data changes

When reference data changes, could we add the ability to see the impacted forecast lines prior to updating the reference data? This would allow users to easily review and approve the changes. Currently, the only process I'm aware of is to create a...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Future consideration

Add a extra set of Variance Drivers and Comment to Variance Analysis so we can explain deviations year to date and also for the FY forecast

We are doing a monthly forecast and Variance analysis YTD so we can explain (add comments) to deviations from Budget to Actuals, In example Jan-Sep in October Forecast. But it will also be very helpfull if we also could do it for the Full Year to ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Filter Behaviour in Planning Dashboard / Views

Similar to storing a filter in Expenses tabs via the Layout (e.g. Default Layout) storing a default filter in Dashboard view by Admin would be great.  Ideally can also define their own filters storing in their own "layout" that applies to das...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration