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Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
21 minutes ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Enhance Variance Analysis to group by the Project Hierarchy

Variance Analysis by the project hierarchy would be useful to see a high-level overview of what is forecasted by Project ID/Portfolio compared to what is budgeted/actually occurring. We're trying to drive adoption of portfolio views by expanding o...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users. We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT rol...
4 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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

Line item filter that filters both ways - check for valid combinations

I have a situation where planners need to plan investments in Planning tool. I have created a custom dimension for investment and line item filter to filter the investment based on cost center. If the planner starts with entering a cost center, th...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to add External labor data which is not editable by planners

In current scenario, planners are able to edit Labor data. We just want users to be able to view the labor data but not edit it. Is it possible to have "external" lines in Labor tab (similar to external lines in Asset and Financial tabs)? Currentl...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ad hoc report subscribtion

Ad hoc report subscriptions would allow users to automatically receive customized reports on-demand without the need to schedule them. Currently, sending on-demand reports requires subscribing end users to a report, which also generates confusing ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Subscription emails

Leverage more than one global filter on the email feature for Costing
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted