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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...
about 14 hours 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...
about 15 hours 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...
about 20 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Additional detail around schedule available on main page

Gives us the ability to know what connector to click into. We run ADM scheduling three times a day so we have to label schedules to include the time to know which one to click into to edit or check. With having the extra columns of time and plan w...
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
8 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.
9 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 ...
10 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.
11 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...
16 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add a feature to allow report users to customize the reporting range themselves rather than having to request a different view of the same report.

I was approached today by the Vendor Management team to see if it would be possible to pull the last 12 (Individual) Months of data for 4 specific vendors. The current report shows the current FY's data so they would have had to download this year...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Functionality already exists

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