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Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Allow Admin Users to change the system-generated Line Item Codes in Planning Actuals so they can align them to Budget lines

Our Finance team is currently tagging actuals against budget lines in a different project before using the ADM to ingest the data into Planning. However, when new fields or schemas are introduced, it generates multiple system-generated line item c...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Advanced Labor Start/End Date Logic

Allow start dates after end dates on the same line and support partial‑month FTE calculations. This would reflect realistic employment patterns such as backfills, role gaps, and mid‑month hires.
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Native Scenario Planning for Forecasting

Provide built‑in scenario modelling that allows cost owners to clone, compare, and apply scenarios without creating separate sandbox plans and manually transferring adjustments.
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Add confirmation pop-up before publishing a plan to Apptio Costing

If I select Plans in Apptio Planning and select "Publish to Apptio Costing..." in the three-dots-menu, the publishing process starts immediately.As there is a high risk to click on this command by accident, it would be great to have a confirmation...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

We would like to grant permissions (access restrictions) on the master data fields used in Planning.

Based on the customer’s request, we gathered the following requirements: In Planning, we understand that the same master data (e.g., account, vendor, etc.) is generally used across all plans.However, depending on the cost center, there are master ...
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Needs more information

Calc Explorer should reflect full build times, including pre & post calcs

When reviewing Calc Explorer to understand calc times and trends, it doesn't reflect full build time which means our team has to go review the full build time in the build queue for addtional detail.
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Needs more information

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Needs more information

Allow for a Scheduled Build Execution in Apptio Studio (Dev Environment)

Introduce a Build Scheduler in Apptio Studio’s Dev environment that allows users to set and manage build schedules.
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Needs more information

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