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Apptio

Datalink Connection Status Indicator similar to Datalink (Classic)

In Datalink, when a connector is initiated, the only status shown is “Running”, with no additional details. In contrast, Datalink (Classic) provides visibility into the connector’s progress while it is running. This allows users to confirm that pr...
about 7 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Provide Users Access without Managing Authentication Domain

This is useful so that the same user does not have to have multiple logins when accessing Apptio and they can manage it under one account. Currently, when trying to add a user that currently exists to a new environment, you are unable to provide t...
about 7 hours ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted

Show Read-only Variance Analysis for Forecast Plans in Final State

Currently Variance Analysis data and commentary is hidden when a forecast plan is moved to the Final state. A message appears saying "Variance Analysis is only available for Forecast plans in New and Open states.". Please change this to show the v...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Ability to bulk update the specific period selected for Editable Tables

In TBM Studio, when creating a Table based on an Editable Table, there are four options for the time selections: 1) No Reoccurring Updates2) Previous Month3) Current Month4) Specific Period Note that the Previous Month and Current Month options ar...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Ability to filter the rows with errors in Editable table

Currently, users input data into editable tables and often rely on the ‘Upload’ functionality for bulk data loads. However, when there is any error in data loaded, the portal does not provide a consolidated or prominent view of these issues. Inste...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX Submitted

Add destination time periods for "Start of Current Period's Year" and "Start of Previous Period's Year"

Data often needs to be loaded into yearly versions through Datalink. In these cases, the destination time must be manually set to a specific period or month, which requires all connectors to be updated at the start of each new year to point to the...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Tag Datalink Connector Jobs to Correlate Calculation Queue Builds/Calculation Explorer metrics

We would like Apptio Datalink to support a tagging mechanism that allows Datalink connector jobs to be correlated with the corresponding builds in the calculation queue. This tagging should be available during the Datalink connection wizard when c...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

After a failed login, user should be able to see information how to request access to the tool

Admins should be able to define in the error message what information users will see after a failed log in so that users know how to request access
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Filtering reference data in UI

It's not very easy to search for a specific line item in reference data tables, especially large tables. Adding a way to search/filter would be extremely useful to anyone who works with reference data. I'm envisioning something similar to the filt...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

An Out Of the Box report containing Table Names and Table Description on the Source Step in the table in Studio.

Description of the Idea: Our team has recently started using the “Table Description” field within the Source Step of a table to capture important documentation details. As part of this effort, we attempted to generate a report in CT that lists all...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted