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Apptio Planning

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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...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Import Capability Not Role Defined

Imp ort capability in expenses view allows all users to upload/overwrite data. Would like this capability limited based on roles
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

More columns and formula options for ITP Labor Allocation Rules

There needs to be more functionality in Labor Allocation Rules to handle Limits and formula capability.  In the US, we have various limits for Social Security Wages,  401(k), FUTA etc.  With only being allowed 1 Other Compensation w...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Option to automatically update ITP reference data from CT with no manual intervention

As this idea, https://community.apptio.com/idea/automate-itp-ct-integration, suggests it would be very nice to automate the integration between ITP reference data and CT datasets. I understand there is a new product, ADM, that will support th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan start date should also give an option to select next year & month

It helps users to look at previous years actuals and perform forecast in the current plan.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IT Planning IT Spend Waterfall Report Enhancement

As users of the built-in comparison reporting under the Planning -> Summary section of IT Planning, we'd like to request an enhancement to the 'IT Spend Waterfall' portion of the report where a user could click on the 'All Others' portion of th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI

The enhancement request is that we want the ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI, bypassing the need to import actuals via .csv Import file or Cost Transparency.   For example after we have imported the current mo...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration