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Apptio Planning

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Option to ensure targets also get filtered by project hierarchy

Currently, there is an option only to set/view targets at department level. We need an option to give or at least show Top-down-targets for both projects and departments. Currently, project owners see the full target value at each level within the...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IT Planning Multi-Year Reference Data Option

As a TBMA supporting IT Planning, we have a use case for enabling multi-year functionality as it relates to our reference data, specifically Labor Rates and Labor Allocation Rules.  Our FP&A team is currently forecasting 3 years within a ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

can mass upload be disconnected from cost object permissions ?

People who are able to edit cost Centers can also perform mass upload. During mass upload, if wrong option selected not intended Cost Centers can be overwritten.Would it be possible to disconnect mass upload: Import: Contracts, Import: Financials,...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change that was made in error
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add option to Import/Export in .xlsx format

It would be nice to import/export to .xlsx in ITP because right now everything is .csv which drops leading zeros and causes issues with formatting and integrity of the data
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Give clients the ability to remove the Hours option on the Labor Activity screen

We view everything in FTE terms and have had issues where the toggle was changed to hours and our data was inaccurate requiring re-work and re-sending of data to our reporting suite
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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.
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Do not throw error for unneeded columns in imports that are present in the export file

Importing a file directly produced by the export data action should not throw any errors. The system should be able to export and immediately reimport with no issues or alterations to the data required by the user. I understand that cost center co...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration