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Review the impacted forecast lines updated & deleted by reference data changes

When reference data changes, could we add the ability to see the impacted forecast lines prior to updating the reference data? This would allow users to easily review and approve the changes. Currently, the only process I'm aware of is to create a...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 7 Future consideration

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Future consideration

Expanded Multi-Channel Notification Support for Parking and System Events in Turbonomic

Hi Team, It would be very beneficial to add enhanced user notification options in Turbonomic, especially for parking-related events and actions. Ideally, users should be able to configure notifications for these actions through multiple channels s...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration