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Apptio Planning

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Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ADM option to publish to reference tables

We are not using ADM for our ITP publishes because we also have to manually publish our project lists to tables in TBM studio
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data. In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from being publ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP to CT - Publish to a specific month

When users are able to publish to a current month in ITP, there is no need for a DL's process to copy the published data from January of the current year to the current month of the current year to maintain actuals.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Clarified verbiage for unsubmitted changes

Currently, when we indicate that there are unsubmitted changes for a Cost Object, we are essentially showing all CO's that are in "In Progress" status, whether or not there have actually been any changes in the CO. The verbiage of "unsubmitted cha...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create a filter on Contract Expiry Dates for xx number of months, instead of just a date

We want to have layouts and filters to be able to quickly see when contracts are expiring in xx number of months. At the moment, the filter is just entering in a date, which is not dynamic enough as you roll through months. Can this be uplifted to...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Enhancements to Variance Analysis

In addition to the capability to compare the variance for Full Year (FY) between to forecast plans (actuals + forecast) in Variance Analysis. We still need improvements before we can migrate from our current approach (outside of Apptio) to using V...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release