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Apptio Planning

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Labor Tab - Summary of Planned & Existing

Would like to a have a summary view within the labor tab that combines the existing and planned employees for a total organization/holistic view
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enhance Event Log with more Information

The Event Log in ITP is quite useful.  Just when Managers delete a line, we simply get the information that a line has been deleted. There's no additional information on what the data looked like previously.  Please add more context to ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Custom Reference data fields dependency-ITP

Custom Reference data fields dependency in ITP- would like an option to allow automated population of the fields based on entries to other fields which have related content.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Increased Optionality for Labor Amortization

Our team has specific requirements for how salary is amortized monthly in a budget or forecast plan.  Each country in our organization has an estimated # of PTO and Holiday hours a month, that we would like to back out of our plan completely....
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Manage all costs objects owned at one time

People who manage multiple cost objects have to manage each cost object separately today.  Customer would like the ability for users to manage all of the cost objects that they own at once.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Import Capability Not Role Defined

Imp ort capability in expenses view allows all users to upload/overwrite data. Would like this capability limited based on roles
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Department Filter Sorted by Department ID rather than Department Name

Currently Department Filter is filtered by Department Name rather than Department ID.  This can be confusing when searching for Departments, especially if user is used to work with IDs rather than Names.  The option to choose if Depart...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Show all out of box Project attributes in IIP

Currently, the only Project attribute fields you can show via Show/Hide columns in the expense view for IIP is Code, Name, and Project Group. Customers need the ability to view all associated attributes that are out of the box like Description, Pr...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Update reference data permission

Requesting to have the permission to update reference data in an open plan to be a permission separated out from other admin capabilities. Use case is to have resource in Europe update the reference data earlier in the day than US resource on TBMO...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration