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Apptio Planning

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View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Ability to set default plan for all cost center owners

Most of the times, we have to close existing plan to make way for reference data updates before creating a new one. Old plan we will archived it with a different name but the problem is when cost center owners login to Apptio planning, they are st...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Labor Adjustment % rate

I would like to raise and enhancement request for the Labour Adjustment % to be auto filled, driven by the labour reference data by location and employee type of internal. This would save any % not being filled out when users are adding new labour...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Request variance explanation when line item does not exist in comparison plan

On behalf of Bjarne Sandholdt from Danfoss, I request the following enhancement on ITP Variance Analysis: Require providing an explanation for the variance in a project, when it falls within designated threshold, also when the line item exists i...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Planning row deletion

We use planning to store a lot of rows/transactions. Over time we accumulate a lot data and some rows aren't needed anymore. I think it would help with performance if we could delete the rows we don't need anymore. Usually, that requires exporting...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Exporting all Line Items in the selected currency to Excel file

Hi,   We discovered that Export Financial button doesn't work as expected. This has been spotted while we were testing multi currency feature in IT Planning.   Here is my step by step description of my actions (screenshots for more clari...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Ability to have one role for Submit and one role for Edit. Currently they are combined

We often have delegation whereby the input users are not ultimately the submitters, and we don't want to accidently submit bulk plans where there is no authority to do so. A system control to prevent this, would be helpful for edit and submit duties.
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered