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Apptio Planning

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Enable/Disable the anual/quarterly columns

I know that they can be hidden, but client keeps complaining that they accidentally press the year or quarter column, and then it linearizes the value present in the year column into the 12 months, overwriting any value that might be manually regi...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Adapt results of ITP filter to existent filters

If for example we have Department A with expenses (A1, A2, A3) and Department B with expenses (B1, B2), when you try to apply a filter on expenses, you see a list that contains A1, A2, A3, B1, B2.  It would make more sense if, having selected...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Retain filter when changing currency

When I change currency in ITP it removes my column filters.  Please retain column filters when changing currencies.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Link FTE Reduction on Labor Tab to Reductions on Labor Activity Tab for Individuals

If a person's time or FTE count reduces on the labor tab, from 1 to .5 fte as an example, customer wants the labor activity tab to "automatically" reduce the current forecast
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

About number of schema items constraints

Hello. I heard that IT Planning's number of schema must be under 60.Actually our company IT Planning's Asset Line Item have 58 items.We would like to use more items if it is possible.Is it possible to increase number of schema items from 60 to mor...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add role level security/cost object permissions to Event Log/Change History in ITP

As an End User, I'd like to check, what changes have been made to my cost center/cost object.  The Event log in ITP would be perfect for this.  However, since the cost object permissions due not apply in the event log, this is problemati...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Comparison should be more granular in IT planning

Hi, our company just started to use apptio. Our IT division use IT planning at budget process and forecast process. At forecast, we create forecast plan based on original budget. Actually we would like to input forecast value while watching b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration