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Apptio

Allow Apptio KPI summary (e.g., CAPEX Total and Project Total) to be configurable or replaceable with metrics that better match business usage

Apptio plan summary KPIs currently display fixed tiles such as CAPEX Total and Project Total, which are automatically populated based on forecast plan data. However, in IBM CIO organization these metrics are not actively used, resulting in dashboa...
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Introduce a “Current Fiscal Year” default KPI display option in expense tab so summaries automatically align to the active fiscal year while still allowing users to change the timeframe as needed

Today, Apptio KPI summaries can display unexpected totals depending on individual user configuration (e.g., First Year of Plan, Selected Timeframe, or Rolling 4 Quarter Forecast). This often results in dashboards continuing to show prior‑year valu...
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Request to Separate Apptio Users from TargetProcess Users in Users tab and Environments Tab-Need additional Metadata column to Filter Apptio Users and Export.

Request to Separate Apptio Users from TargetProcess Users in Users tab and Environments Tab-Need additional Metadata column to Filter Apptio Users and Export.
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted

Email RLS subscription

The new Email RLS subscription feature has been improved which is good. But the info to the end user via the email is on PDF only, it will be better if the actual email body contains specific KPIs and insights rather than a PDF to improve traction.
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Edit Asset Loads by Month

I would like to have the ability to load assets by the purchase price and also edit by month if need be. Currently today the monthly allocations is controlled by the purchase price and then straight-lined by a reference table. I would like the abi...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Missing reservation/AmortizedUpfrontCostForUsage Field

Currently rebuilding JPMC Environment and this field "reservation/AmortizedUpfrontCostForUsage" is utilized in the identifying the Amortized upfront fees. It appears that CLDY is dropping this field from CUR. Proposed solution within ticket #TS021...
1 day ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) Submitted

Formula similiar to today() in TBM Studio

Today there is no way for us to calculate the time remaining on a contract in relation to the current date. Using the currentdate() function causes confusion as it is dependent on the date picker. It also does not accurately reflect the time remai...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Integrate Cost Object Permissions between Costing and Planning

It would be useful (and an incentive) to manage Cost Object Permission data in Costing, and then have it automatically feed into Planning. It is common that users changes, along with their access requirements. In some cases it is possible to autom...
5 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) Submitted

Custom Unique Fields for priorization activities

We want managers to rank lines in their department from 1...n. e.g. Manager from department xyz would use identifiers "xyz-001, xyz-002, xyz-003, ..." to assign to each line item. Each code must only be used once (and in best case, as this would b...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Ability to bulk deactivate/delete users in Access Administration

TD Bank has a security requirement to delete users with no activity. In some cases, this could require deleting 100+ accounts. The current functionality of searching and deleting users is not efficient. Previously a comma separated list could be i...
6 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted