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Apptio Planning

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Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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).”
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Asset Depreciation

Currently selecting straight line by depreciation the calculation is Purchase Price divided by Asset life (in months). Is there a way the calculation could be Net Book Value divided by Remaining life.  This is way Oracle calculates and to upl...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data. Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center. Update** 1/10/25...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Sum Feature in Numeric Columns in Planning

Feature Request: Adding a Sum Feature to the bottom of Planning Tables when incorporating columns with numeric values, similar to how the amount columns are summed. 
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Planning row deletion

We use planning to store a lot of rows/transactions. Over time we accumulate a lot data and some rows aren't needed anymore. I think it would help with performance if we could delete the rows we don't need anymore. Usually, that requires exporting...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enable Cost Object Permissions from ADM

Currently Cost Object Permissions can only be manually loaded into ITP and adjusted from there.  Creating Cost Object Permissions from Master Data in CT and manually adding changes works, until Master Data changes and is updated as this  ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Plan years from 6 years to 10 years

Hello.I have an request.Is it possible to expand 6 years to 10 years of 1 plan of IT Planning?Because our IT division is required to submit 10 years plan to corporate strategy division.Current ITP's 6 years have a problem to make 10 years pla...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Labor Adjustment % rate

I would like to raise and enhancement request for the Labour Adjustment % to be auto filled, driven by the labour reference data by location and employee type of internal. This would save any % not being filled out when users are adding new labour...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release