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Apptio Planning

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Amortization that starts based on a date field for a line entry

Our finance users would like to see an option to start amortization based on a certain date entered for an existing line item or a newly created line item. It would work like the existing Amortize check option, but a new field that looks to the da...
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan level mandatory fields/settings

We have different users in the tool with different processes and forecast types. One set of users has specific fields created in Planning for their process that aren’t required in other user’s processes. It would be nice to have the option to crea...
about 11 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Suggest that Plan Level Permissions is a user selected preference in the Company Profile

Would be beneficial during deployment phase to have this disabled as the permissions is yet to be determined and multiple plans are created. Establishing the same view across plans and over time is diffult to manage. When handover is completed, cu...
about 14 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

445 Calendar - "Other" expenses, spread per calendar days instead of evenly spread

Using a FisCal setup with 445 weeks per quarter, one would expect that spreading of amounts entered in a quarter is spread by 4-4-5 weeks in P(1-3) instead of evenly between the 3 periods.
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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 ...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

VAT Feature, but Allocated in the Monthly Forecast Columns

The enhancement would work like the VAT feature but would adjust the monthly forecast by the tax adjusted amount. For example, the contract’s location is selected, the rate is multiplied by the contract amount, then the new tax adjusted contract a...
17 days 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...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release