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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...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 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...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ticker or Flash page to announce unplanned downtime

There have been two zone-wide Apptio downtimes since Jan 2025. Both instances were long in duration, lasting more than 10 hours and it became a major problem for us fielding questions from users and our management teams. And the tool does not let ...
12 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
12 days 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 ...
14 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Set a threshold to ignore fallout to a certain degree in model report

When checking the model report, even the slightest fallout of one dollar is shown. I´d like to be able to set a threshold like 1% or an absolute like 5k which than is ignored when displaying the report.
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ability to pause connectors at group level/individual level

This would give us the ability to pause/skip the next schedule run without having to remove the schedule. An example of when this would be useful for example would be during an upgrade weekend we could pause the connection so it does not run durin...
19 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink Connection For Non-Billing GCP BigQuery Data Ingestion

As a TBMA, I my organization ingests GCP Billing data into TBM Studio for reporting. We also have other GCP-related costs from vendors, such as Kafka and MongoDB, that are not included in the GCP BigQuery Billing table. We need an automated TBM St...
20 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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