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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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

ad hoc report subscribtion

Ad hoc report subscriptions would allow users to automatically receive customized reports on-demand without the need to schedule them. Currently, sending on-demand reports requires subscribing end users to a report, which also generates confusing ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Create a way to schedule or script the manual steps to refresh the source for Enriched Editable Tables

Enriched editable tables let us feed calculated data into the editable tables, however the data isn't able to update for new rows or overwritten data. A lookup in the script* can work when added/editing a row but if the source data changes after t...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to allow report users to customize the reporting range themselves rather than having to request a different view of the same report.

I was approached today by the Vendor Management team to see if it would be possible to pull the last 12 (Individual) Months of data for 4 specific vendors. The current report shows the current FY's data so they would have had to download this year...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Functionality already exists

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio Development environment. However, we have faced so...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration