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Apptio Planning

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Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Undo Feature

Adding undo step functionality would be super helpful!
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 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.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ADM sync directions could be separated to bi-directional and option to keep CT->ITP on hold, and automate ITP->CT.

Due to Cost Pools/Bill Codes/Dept reference data been added or modified for each month of a FY, we need to avoid the actual number been changed for prior months that already completed billing process.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration