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Apptio Planning

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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

Ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI

The enhancement request is that we want the ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI, bypassing the need to import actuals via .csv Import file or Cost Transparency.   For example after we have imported the current mo...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Sum Feature in Numeric Columns in Planning

Feature Request: Adding a Sum Feature to the bottom of Planning Tables when incorporating columns with numeric values, similar to how the amount columns are summed. 
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Custom role/ permissions in IT Planning

Use case I have noticed that one permission “CustomizeLayouts” where User can customize layouts in AgilePlanning. Do we also have this permission in IT Planning?     In IT Planning I need to create e a role where user can only ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Attach PDFs to Contracts in ITPF

As a Cost Center Owner, I’d like to be able to attach our PDF contract to our contract line item so that I can easily identify, align and manage our contracts with our vendors.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can look up a contract name ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Custom alerts for ITP

Customer would benefit from having the ability to create custom alerts to pass along info to their end users, like budget submission deadlines for CO owners and budget approval deadlines for managers.  Alerts should appear similar to how...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

About number of schema items constraints

Hello. I heard that IT Planning's number of schema must be under 60.Actually our company IT Planning's Asset Line Item have 58 items.We would like to use more items if it is possible.Is it possible to increase number of schema items from 60 to mor...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to change Comparison variance sign

Would like the ability to display the comparison variance as either B/(W) or (B)/W
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Comparison should be more granular in IT planning

Hi, our company just started to use apptio. Our IT division use IT planning at budget process and forecast process. At forecast, we create forecast plan based on original budget. Actually we would like to input forecast value while watching b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Column "Created Date" to be Exportable with Layout

Allow a use to export that Created Date column (that is currently not allowed to be exported) plus normal expense-related fields and add the cautionary ‘pop-up’ commentary (not allow them to re-import the specified date fields); then allow them to...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration