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Add "Trailing Twelve Months (TTM)" option to Calendar-Based Column Options

As a TBMA, I would like the option to quickly declare a metric's column should show its value as a sum of the current month + the past 11 months. Today, I can select from options highlighted in the Help documentation here: https://help.apptio.com/...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 3 Delivered

Automated report delivery from Total Cost/Apptio

Requesting a method for automated scheduled report delivery of reports from Total Cost. We have a series of reports created in TBM Studio that reflect key KPIs and other pertinent data. We need a way to automatically schedule the delivery of these...
29 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 2 Delivered

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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

For Editable Table: allow Publish to 1 Single Version post ET Table

Currently we have No Recurring Updates (=Ad Hoc), Current Month, Previous Month and Specific Period. But we are not able to publish to 1 single version at the beginning of time. Using Specific Period partially addresses the issue, but not fully si...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Delivered

Review Details on Apptio Planning Maintenance Only Releases

As a tool owner, I'd like to be able to review the details on maintenance only releases in the Recent Releases Help section, so that I can see what changes are coming and if they might impact our daily operations.  Currently, the maintenance ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Labor Adjustment % rate

I would like to raise and enhancement request for the Labour Adjustment % to be auto filled, driven by the labour reference data by location and employee type of internal. This would save any % not being filled out when users are adding new labour...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Labor Tab - Summary of Planned & Existing

Would like to a have a summary view within the labor tab that combines the existing and planned employees for a total organization/holistic view
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Enhancements to the scheduling

Schedule 1: Send current month forecast to a daily reporting project daily  Schedule 2: Send current month forecast on specific days to cost transparency project. Schedule for day 1,19,30 somewhat like DL capabilities. Due to having multi...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Delivered

Ability to bulk delete from ITP UI

Ability to bulk delete from ITP UI (something like using checkboxes *Assuming you can filter and select all* or using conditional statements)
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Finalizing the Plan Auto Approves the cost Object which is not correct behaviour

Case # 00341773 was closed stating that this is expected behavior and they asked us to raise an Idea.  The Problem is that client uses a new plan each month and the old one needs to be read only for the users. In order to make it re...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered