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Request for the addition of a feature in the treemap report that allows the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) to be aligned based on the same fiscal year.

Regarding the treemap report, due to Apptio’s current specifications, it is not possible to align both the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) based on the same fiscal year. Therefore, we would like to request...
16 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

New permission enabling the viewing and editing data for all active and archived plans.

Currently, a role must be granted the "ManagePlans" permission to view and edit data for all active and archived plans. However, this also gives them the ability to create, open, archive, restore, and delete plans. This new permission would allow ...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Forecast in Days

At NESO we are accustomed to forecasting in days. We have changed the working calendar to represent 1 hour per day so we can forecast in days. The only issue we have here is that in the 'labor activity' tab the selection in the top right section i...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Align Cross‑Charge deduction to the Resource’s default Project (Labor tab) instead of the activity Project

In Apptio Planning, when a cross‑charge is generated from the Labor Activity tab, the resulting charge and chargeback lines on the Summary tab both correctly reflect the Project selected on the Labor Activity entry. However, this creates a project...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Create a privilege that controls the Publish Table action in Cost Transparency

Currently there is a gap in Apptio product in terms of handling the privileges for the Publish Table action. Cost Transparency users can click on the Publish Table action which creates a new workspace for the user in Studio. Considering that users...
5 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Power Bi connector for TBM Studio

While TBM Studio provides robust Technology Business Management analytics and cost transparency capabilities, its native reporting and visualization options can be limiting, especially for organizations that have standardized on Microsoft's Power ...
23 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Plan Level Permissions - need a way to remove permission from all/multiple plans

Currently if we add/change a line (to grant or modify a permission) it can be selected by a tickbox and Published To All Plans, allowing us to sync them easily. If we need to remove a permission, there's nothing to select once the item is removed,...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Sort public layouts alphabetically

Dear IBM Support, several of our users will appreciate a functionality for alphabetical sorting of public and private layouts in Planning under Expenses.As I see under "Manage layouts", currently it's only possible to rename, but not to sort or ch...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Future consideration

Clustered columns on Spend Trend Visual in Summary View

Currently: In the Spend Trend visual on the Summary view, totals are only visible when hovering over the bars. This makes it harder to quickly interpret values, especially when different breakdowns are applied. Proposed Improvement: Display total ...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration