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Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Needs more information

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration