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ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Run rate in ITP

It would be good to have a KPI in IT planning which displays the run rate. This would be helpful in forecasting. Run rate is the expected future cost if the current pace continues. For example: If your actual costs for January are $100,000, the an...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

ITP Manual publishes result in 1 build after the final publish

Every night at 5 pm, we publish 5 tables from ITP to Cost Transparency. Each publish creates a separate calc in TBM Studio. In order to save time, we have to cancel the running calc so all builds roll up. This is a manual process.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration