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Add a look up feature for Currency in Planning.

We have over 70 currencies and it's difficult to find a currency. They are not in any specific order and the list is long. Adding a look up search feature would be a huge improvement for our end-users.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Sorting the list of hidden columns in a table to facilitate unhiding one from a long list

What I experience: Often I have tables with many columns, most of which are not useful to the purpose I am working on. I normally try to get rid of these columns as early as possible to leave only the ones relevant for the task. Sometimes however ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Future consideration

Security TCO

Jabil is looking to track their cyber security spends and TCO. With AI costs rising, they are also looking to optimize and track their cyber security spends.
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Future consideration

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Future consideration

Adding in the ability to use formulas in Apptio Planning.

I would like to discuss the idea of adding in the ability to create formulas within Apptio Planning. In NatWest we would like to be able to use our the Labour and associated cost data to calculate an internal day rate cost for our staff, this Day ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Allow greater flexibility for labor planning by allowing for flexible schedules by month, for example, by giving the ability to spread cost based upon number of Sundays in a month.

This would be useful because currently I have the 4 week versus 5 week months and I can only get around this by creating a report and importing the report into external financials. This prevents me from doing some analysis by person since my costs...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

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