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Apptio Essentials Portfolio

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Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Under review

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Under review

Apptio Costing Essentials: Make Solution Allocations independent from hardcoded Solution Type, e.g. Allow Headcount Allocations to whole Organization based on Criteria from Workbench

Currently only End User Solutions are allocated via Headcount to Organizations. We propose to adjust the mechanism independent from Solution Types, so all allocations can be set via workbench, as for most customers the methods are different. In th...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a  thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not onl...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted