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Apptio Planning

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Custom role/ permissions in IT Planning

Use case I have noticed that one permission “CustomizeLayouts” where User can customize layouts in AgilePlanning. Do we also have this permission in IT Planning?     In IT Planning I need to create e a role where user can only ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Link FTE Reduction on Labor Tab to Reductions on Labor Activity Tab for Individuals

If a person's time or FTE count reduces on the labor tab, from 1 to .5 fte as an example, customer wants the labor activity tab to "automatically" reduce the current forecast
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

About number of schema items constraints

Hello. I heard that IT Planning's number of schema must be under 60.Actually our company IT Planning's Asset Line Item have 58 items.We would like to use more items if it is possible.Is it possible to increase number of schema items from 60 to mor...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Comparison should be more granular in IT planning

Hi, our company just started to use apptio. Our IT division use IT planning at budget process and forecast process. At forecast, we create forecast plan based on original budget. Actually we would like to input forecast value while watching b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Show only menu points user has permissions for (ITP)

In IT Planning menu only sections of Spend Management/Change History/Configuration can be hidden based on permissions.  Within Section of Planning, only the subpoints Dashboard & Variance Analysis can be hidden (from Company profile).&nbs...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level

1.Users want to see Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level. Which means they want to see what lines in General Ledger are contributing to actuals vs what lines in forecast were used to compare. 2. We need invoice lin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension. Unique numbers are assigned to our plan line items, and all actual line items are tagged accordingly. Currently, actuals are imported using these unique numbers, which...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Legal Entity Uplift

Is there is a mechanism that can be made to apply an uplift to an entire cost base based on a metric that we load, like the labour allocation rules.  Is there a rule that can be written at legal entity level and apply a % uplift to add to t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP Workflow- Multiple Editors

Hello. In ITP, if we have multiple editors in the workflow, one editor can submit the plan before the others have entered their data. Is there a way to ensure all editors have submitted their info (or "signed off") before the plan is sent to the n...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration