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Apptio Planning

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ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Target file import possibility

Please add functionality that allows the import of the Targets file. In other parts of Apptio planning, such as 'Reference Data', we have similar functionality; for example, we can import 'Labor Rates' (screenshot attached).”
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ITP – Department Drop-Down

Expand the Department drop-down box to allow for more characters, improving visibility for all users.
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration