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Apptio Planning

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Align Cross‑Charge deduction to the Resource’s default Project (Labor tab) instead of the activity Project

In Apptio Planning, when a cross‑charge is generated from the Labor Activity tab, the resulting charge and chargeback lines on the Summary tab both correctly reflect the Project selected on the Labor Activity entry. However, this creates a project...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Need the ability to turn off widgets that are not being populated

We are currently launching our Planning instance with cost center owners and our environment only contains OpEx expenses with no labor data (due to some finance team concerns) so we have an empty Labor widget on our dashboard. I understand that TB...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release

Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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 ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Not under consideration

Allow Admin Users to change the system-generated Line Item Codes in Planning Actuals so they can align them to Budget lines

Our Finance team is currently tagging actuals against budget lines in a different project before using the ADM to ingest the data into Planning. However, when new fields or schemas are introduced, it generates multiple system-generated line item c...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Sort public layouts alphabetically

Dear IBM Support, several of our users will appreciate a functionality for alphabetical sorting of public and private layouts in Planning under Expenses.As I see under "Manage layouts", currently it's only possible to rename, but not to sort or ch...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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