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Additional detail around schedule available on main page

Gives us the ability to know what connector to click into. We run ADM scheduling three times a day so we have to label schedules to include the time to know which one to click into to edit or check. With having the extra columns of time and plan w...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Adding a new auto-population column in an existing standard dimension which can be published to CT as well.

As of now it is not possible to add a new column in a standard dimension and auto-populate it in ITP whenever other column in the same standard dimension is populated by the planner. Please refer to Support Case No TS018500846 for more details.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to create your own additional 'tabs' based on the 'other' tab functionality

The 'other' tab starts to grow in volume, and often becomes a 'catch all' for expense types. If we have specific categories that these costs can be broken down into, it would be great if we could separate onto another tab and rename to be more app...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to customise the Summary tab - drills and KPI's

the Summary Tab - Waterfall and graphs are very useful but would be could if we could hide some of the KPI's eg. Capex and update the drill columns. Our users really find this report useful but would be more widely accepted if we could update the ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to only allow certain user groups to import data to Planning

Importing directly to the system has risks related to overwriting the data, and an average user is not capable or trained to be able to complete this reliably. We would like for this option to be only with Admin, or select users at Admin discretion
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to load customised public views at a plan-level, rather than system-wide shared

We have multiple user types that will not share the use of the same plans, and so we would like to customise the public views each of the users can see by plan. Currently this is set/shared for all Plans within Planning.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration