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Run rate in ITP

It would be good to have a KPI in IT planning which displays the run rate. This would be helpful in forecasting. Run rate is the expected future cost if the current pace continues. For example: If your actual costs for January are $100,000, the an...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

TS019982564 - add support for SFTP protocol to File Transfer job

After back and forth with support it was confirmed that I won't be able to create file transfer job and use SFTP protocol. The protocol has been introduced almost 30 years ago and is de-facto standard used by our external partners. Please add supp...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

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.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Workload Automation - Databricks Plugin Improvements

IWA Databricks plugin should be improved in the visualization and interaction capabilities with the Databricks workflow: - Plugin should have the ability to view tasks (which are part of Databrick jobs) - Plugin should have the ability to rerun/co...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add CANC P status to dropdown for event rule monitoring Job Stream change of status

Our staff were somewhat surprised by the CANC P status because we really have no collective memory of encountering that before. It would be probably more truthful to say the status was overlooked, assuming that it had been cancelled, but nobody co...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration