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View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Ability to set default plan for all cost center owners

Most of the times, we have to close existing plan to make way for reference data updates before creating a new one. Old plan we will archived it with a different name but the problem is when cost center owners login to Apptio planning, they are st...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Delivered

Add compare feature for Labor

On other parts of the planning section in Apptio you can compare different plans to each other. Could we get that functionality in the labor section of the tool?
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Plan attributes restricted for editing with role based permissions

At many customers, there are requests to have specific attributes only visible or edited by the core management team. Since this is not possible, many are maintaining multiple plans or are forced to maintain those aspects outside of Apptio. This w...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Apptio Costing Essentials: Make Solution Allocations independent from hardcoded Solution Type, e.g. Allow Headcount Allocations to whole Organization based on Criteria from Workbench

Currently only End User Solutions are allocated via Headcount to Organizations. We propose to adjust the mechanism independent from Solution Types, so all allocations can be set via workbench, as for most customers the methods are different. In th...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Delivered

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 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 3 Delivered

Ability to have one role for Submit and one role for Edit. Currently they are combined

We often have delegation whereby the input users are not ultimately the submitters, and we don't want to accidently submit bulk plans where there is no authority to do so. A system control to prevent this, would be helpful for edit and submit duties.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 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...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 2 Delivered