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Apptio

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Provide a means to view all reports a user has access to in one place

All the available reports do not show under the Apptio BI "All" tab. It excludes the Apptio BI Reports. This is not intuitive. All is expect to mean All. It is true that the help pages do state that All: the "All" button Shows reports that you hav...
about 23 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
13 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Ability to add variance comments at the full year (FY) column in Variance Analysis or Compare Shortcuts

Add the capability to add comments when comparing an annual forecast plan to another annual forecast plan (actuals + forecast) and save the comments in a layout. Currently, there is no ability to add comments when using the compare shortcuts featu...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

View by Week

Apptio BI reports offers a view by daily, monthly, quarterly and half-yearly at present. It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs. It would also be useful to customise the first day of the...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Give ability for user to see all reports they have access to

There is no way to see a complete list of the reports that you have access to in Apptio BI. This is because the "All" option doesn't actually show all reports as one would naturally assume from the name. It only shows reports created by the user o...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Under review

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add non calendar Financial Year Date Range options

Apptio BI only has a concept of a calendar year at present. Typically customers want to report by Financial Years. Where the customer's financial Year is not the calendar year this is not currently possible hence a core use case cannot be met. Thi...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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 ...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Under review