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Apptio Planning

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Increased Optionality for Labor Amortization

Our team has specific requirements for how salary is amortized monthly in a budget or forecast plan.  Each country in our organization has an estimated # of PTO and Holiday hours a month, that we would like to back out of our plan completely....
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Department Filter Sorted by Department ID rather than Department Name

Currently Department Filter is filtered by Department Name rather than Department ID.  This can be confusing when searching for Departments, especially if user is used to work with IDs rather than Names.  The option to choose if Depart...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Update reference data permission

Requesting to have the permission to update reference data in an open plan to be a permission separated out from other admin capabilities. Use case is to have resource in Europe update the reference data earlier in the day than US resource on TBMO...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Custom alerts for ITP

Customer would benefit from having the ability to create custom alerts to pass along info to their end users, like budget submission deadlines for CO owners and budget approval deadlines for managers.  Alerts should appear similar to how...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Filtering on Custom "memo" columns

Would like the ability to filter on custom "memo' columns.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP with ADM - Automatically Update Reference Data

@Sheetal Dehadaraya Recently, we did a demo of ADM to the customer A2A. The customer likes the feature "Automatically publish reference data imported from Cost Transparency". A2A would like to have also a feature for "Automatically Update Referen...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration