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Missing amortized upfront cost field

CDI is missing a critical cost field for amortized upfront cost for usage that currently exists in MCC This field is needed to reconcile bills for JPMC's new global upfront purchase products from Amazon The support ticket explains the issue in det...
about 7 hours ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

What is needed is a neutral indicator-- call it a blue dot or arrow pointing to the right -- to indicate something may be up month to month, but it's OK that is' up because it's STILL w/in the Health indicator range listed on the right side of the Digital KPI dashboard (see the attachment - mockup).

Originally, we raised a request - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/500gJ000009uoZgQAI In CPE's (CIO Platform Engineering) case, e.g. We have MTTR that can change in any direction up or down cycle to cycle (e.g. month to month), but staying within the...
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

We would like to grant permissions (access restrictions) on the master data fields used in Planning.

Based on the customer’s request, we gathered the following requirements: In Planning, we understand that the same master data (e.g., account, vendor, etc.) is generally used across all plans.However, depending on the cost center, there are master ...
about 20 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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...
25 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

prevent dropping lines with no forecast (not even 0s) when creating new plans/forecasts using previous ones as baseline. make sure that for new line items that are created in Contracts and Other tabs (entered manually or uploaded) that forecast is at least auto populated with 0s, instead of blanks

make sure new line items that are created in Contracts and Other tabs (entered manually or uploaded) that forecast is at least auto populated with 0s, instead of blanks. to prevent dropping lines with no forecast (not even 0s) when creating new pl...
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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration