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Apptio

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Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
about 13 hours ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Don't reset to page 1 after exiting from connection group

Let's say I'm on page 3 of connection groups. I open a connector group and work on it. Upon leaving the connector group/discarding the work, I should go back to the page I was on (page 3 in this example), rather than resetting to page 1. We've to ...
about 10 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connection Groups in Datalink should be searchable

We have 15 Connection groups in Datalink. We have to flip through pagination to search for a connection group, because only 10 results are displayed at once. I think it's very primitive to not have a search function the way we have currently in th...
about 10 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Planning and Apptio BI permissions to be independent

Would like the ability to add users to Apptio BI to view planning data via the reports but not give them to have access to planning. It seems unnecessary to add a bunch of users to planning and bog down the system when they just need to view repor...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Report uploader service improvements to update workspace

As a user who loads data from the report surface, I'd like to be able to update my workspace on the report surface in order recognize data sets that my colleagues, who are also data loaders, have entered into the system much as you can in TBM Stud...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Implement ADM for Line Item Filters, Cost Object Permissions and Project Permissions in ITP

It will benefit all customers as the data transfer will be automated without requiring any manual effort
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted