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Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
7 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Allow Custom Report Collections in Vendor Insights

We are building some custom reports in the Vendor Insights Project, that need to be added as new Report Collections in Vendor Insights. Currently, Vendor Insights project doesn't allow us to create/add custom named Report Collections to it. It wil...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP Respect Cost Object Permissions for Group Cost Centre Editors

In ITP today, we use group cost centre owners in the division heirachy for both editing, review and rollup purposes. These group cost centre owners only have Editor access in Cost Object Permissions, and do not have Owner access. However, when a g...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

User Experience - To get feedback from the user

We are getting feedback from our new users via email by asking the simple questions whether the report met their expectations and if they have any ideas for enhancing or improving the reports. We are suggesting that if the Apptio can build such fu...
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Help & Training 0 Under review

Apptio BI - Formatting the Charts

It would be good if we have the option to change the color format of the Pivot and Bar Charts in Apptio BI. We have this functionality in Cost Transparency. Request you to implement the same in BI as well.
about 21 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
21 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted