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Apptio Planning

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IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to add External labor data which is not editable by planners

In current scenario, planners are able to edit Labor data. We just want users to be able to view the labor data but not edit it. Is it possible to have "external" lines in Labor tab (similar to external lines in Asset and Financial tabs)? Currentl...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to set default plan for all cost center owners

Most of the times, we have to close existing plan to make way for reference data updates before creating a new one. Old plan we will archived it with a different name but the problem is when cost center owners login to Apptio planning, they are st...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Undo Feature

Adding undo step functionality would be super helpful!
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration