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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 ...
27 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
9 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 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

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 2 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
4 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted