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Plan attributes restricted for editing with role based permissions

At many customers, there are requests to have specific attributes only visible or edited by the core management team. Since this is not possible, many are maintaining multiple plans or are forced to maintain those aspects outside of Apptio. This w...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

ITP Module: Add comparison options to ITP>Expense>Labor Tab (similar to Expense>Summary Tab)

ITP Module: Add comparison options to ITP Expense Labor Tab (similar to Expense Summary Tab)
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Delivered

Status: Email of Status with Plan Name

looking for the feature to send the email with plan name any plan is submitted and opened and approved by CC owner, Project owner and Department owner. 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Column "Created Date" to be Exportable with Layout

Allow a use to export that Created Date column (that is currently not allowed to be exported) plus normal expense-related fields and add the cautionary ‘pop-up’ commentary (not allow them to re-import the specified date fields); then allow them to...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

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...
11 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...
11 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

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