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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...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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...
4 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...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

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

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 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...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 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