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Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP Respect Cost Object Permissions for Group Cost Centre Editors

In ITP today, we use group cost centre owners in the division heirachy for both editing, review and rollup purposes. These group cost centre owners only have Editor access in Cost Object Permissions, and do not have Owner access. However, when a g...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Multiple Compensation Adjustment % depending on time period

Currently, adjustment % on Labor tab is applicable to a single adjustment date.  We have different COLA adjustment rates in different years (X% in 2023, Y% in 2024).  As a result, as we've moved to planning the next two years, our comp c...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Variance Comparison Between Budget and Forecast

Ability to do variance comparisons between budget and forecast, or forecast to forecast, in order to create waterfall charts 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Grand totals for rows in a multi-year plan

We use a multi-year forecast in ITP and while we can see the total for each of the individual years on a line, it would be helpful if we could see the grand total of all of the years in the plan.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP Variance Analysis - Add an Option for an "OR" Statement in the Variance Threshold

Currently, the Variance Analysis, when being set up, can only define a threshold as an AND statement (for example, Variance Analysis required if the variance is +-5% AND +-$10,000). Percentage and Numeric thresholds may be vastly different between...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP Variance analysis - Export possibility for admins & report of variance driver populated by users

1. Admins need to be able to export the Variance analysis details.2. There needs to be a report that shows a snapshot of the variance drivers populated by users.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered