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New permission enabling the viewing and editing data for all active and archived plans.

Currently, a role must be granted the "ManagePlans" permission to view and edit data for all active and archived plans. However, this also gives them the ability to create, open, archive, restore, and delete plans. This new permission would allow ...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Forecast in Days

At NESO we are accustomed to forecasting in days. We have changed the working calendar to represent 1 hour per day so we can forecast in days. The only issue we have here is that in the 'labor activity' tab the selection in the top right section i...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Create a privilege that controls the Publish Table action in Cost Transparency

Currently there is a gap in Apptio product in terms of handling the privileges for the Publish Table action. Cost Transparency users can click on the Publish Table action which creates a new workspace for the user in Studio. Considering that users...
6 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Power Bi connector for TBM Studio

While TBM Studio provides robust Technology Business Management analytics and cost transparency capabilities, its native reporting and visualization options can be limiting, especially for organizations that have standardized on Microsoft's Power ...
23 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

: Please add functions to Formulas that have the same functionality as the ASC and JIS functions specific to the Japanese version of Excel.

In Japanese text, Latin characters, katakana, and hiragana can appear in full-width and half-width forms, which may cause mismatches when comparing or referencing text. To address this, the Japanese version of Excel provides two functions:ASC(), w...
28 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Add ability to have multiple runs for 'Recurring Updates for Editable Tables'

At the moment, Editable Tables can only have one schedule for recurring updates. At most, this can be run hourly. However, we have a use case where we would like recurring updates to occur every 15min so that it's more 'real time' for our end user...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

The ability to generate a unique URL for each report tab and date range within the same report

In Apptio Costing, report URLs can currently only be shared in the default tab and date range state. We would like to request an enhancement to allow issuing unique URLs for non-default tabs and date ranges. Because the lack of these features is l...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

In TBM Studio, make "Report" ribbon always visible when viewing a report even when not checked out, but enable only select ribbon buttons for read-only inspection of details

As a TBMA (or other authorized user), I want to quickly inspect the following details of a report without being required to check the document out: Master template assigned to the report Report Collection assigned to the report Report's Start Date...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Resolve "BoxedStringOffset" vs "Long" label type errors

Costing stores label type data as either BoxedStringOffset or Long data types. Whether one or the other is used seems to depend on whether a formula was used to generate the label, and possibly which formula. A label field uploaded from an excel f...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Entity errors should say more or link to Change History records

When an entity shows an error in the Status page, then the user should be able to click on that and have it either show them more about the error, or link to the relevant record in the Change History so they can get to the error details easily.
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted