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Search results: Apptio

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Future consideration

Save Column-set when viewing columns in a table or object in TBM Studio

When validating formulas or looking at data in a table or object with more than 75 columns, the user must change the column configuration to view what they need. If the browser refreshes or the data updates, this process must be repeated. It would...
9 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Submitted

Save Column-set when viewing columns in a table or object in TBM Studio

When validating formulas or looking at data in a table or object with more than 75 columns, the user must change the column configuration to view what they need. If the browser refreshes or the data updates, this process must be repeated. It would...
9 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
10 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

New chart types in Apptio Cost Transparency

A few of my stakeholders have requested different chart types that Apptio does not support so if new charts could be added in a future release, that would provide some variety on dashboards. Executives receive reports from different systems, so it...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

Allow Admin Users to change the system-generated Line Item Codes in Planning Actuals so they can align them to Budget lines

Our Finance team is currently tagging actuals against budget lines in a different project before using the ADM to ingest the data into Planning. However, when new fields or schemas are introduced, it generates multiple system-generated line item c...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add possibility to eliminate the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value

It would be great if there will be added a possibility to eliminate ( filter out) the lines in the Forecast which have "0" value. Unfortunately, there is no other possibility at this time other than manually deleting line items within Planning and...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration