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Apptio Planning

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Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Clarified verbiage for unsubmitted changes

Currently, when we indicate that there are unsubmitted changes for a Cost Object, we are essentially showing all CO's that are in "In Progress" status, whether or not there have actually been any changes in the CO. The verbiage of "unsubmitted cha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data.  Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Button to create logs for ITP performance

We have experienced ongoing slowness issues in IT Planning.  When submitting a ticket, we are told the only way a ticket can be researched is to take a video and provide a HAR file at the same time.  This takes a significant amount of ti...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ADM disable load of actuals into closed months

The possibility to disable load of actuals into closed months can prevent loss of actuals that is currently happening by design in 2 different ways:    1. As Cost Object Ref Data is taken from last Period of CT that is open AND at th...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Custom Reference data fields dependency-ITP

Custom Reference data fields dependency in ITP- would like an option to allow automated population of the fields based on entries to other fields which have related content.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration