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Security TCO

Jabil is looking to track their cyber security spends and TCO. With AI costs rising, they are also looking to optimize and track their cyber security spends.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Allow recipients to be CC'd in Email Subscriptions

Currently we select recipients for Email Subscriptions for a report. Apptio ends up sending individual emails to recipients. There are cases where we want to send monthly Cost Center reports to respective Cost Center Owners, and keep the FBP/Finan...
27 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Enhance the Extension depreciation method to support year-wise extension and allocation instead of applying only after the asset end date.

Currently, the Extension method only distributes the remaining amount evenly after the asset end date, which limits flexibility for multi-year depreciation planning. Adding support for year-wise extension and allocation would provide more accurate...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / Usability/UX Submitted

Advanced Labor Allocation Rules - caps and floors on rules (eg x% capped at $2000, or y% but at least £30, etc)

It would be very useful to be able to specify minimum/maximum values for an allocation rule to produce Some percentage-based costs start or stop entirely at certain absolute £ values. EG we have a company car scheme worth 10% of salary, capped at ...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Advanced Labor allocation Rules - %age of another rule's result (eg add tax to pension)

We have a problem in our Labor cost allocations where some costs have National Insurance (assume 15%) applied on top, eg annual bonus. In most cases elsewhere in the company, this looks like this:(Salary * 115%) * (bonus%) = total bonus payment. I...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Different Decimal Precision Option for Non-Financial Numbers in Apptio Planning

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. We have our number format set to 0 decimal places in company profile as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this rounding, ...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Merge contents of standard tables based on editable tables

When merging a branch into the trunk, editable tables and their contents are merged, but any standard tables using the editable table as the source are not updated with the new contents from the branch. If you have made updates in the branch to th...
25 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 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...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Sorting the list of hidden columns in a table to facilitate unhiding one from a long list

What I experience: Often I have tables with many columns, most of which are not useful to the purpose I am working on. I normally try to get rid of these columns as early as possible to leave only the ones relevant for the task. Sometimes however ...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted