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Apptio Planning

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Reflect Sum of Highlighted Fields

To improve user experience when collaborating within the plan or forecast, have the ability to highlight fields in Expense Planning and Summary Tabs to get a sum of those fields (similar to excel functionality)
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Define which Asset Classes are available for new plans, and which legacy

My organisation has changed the useful life of software assets from 5 years to 3 years, but the class is still the same. As a Budget Process Owner, I have to show the expected depreciation of 5 year assets from my asset register. However, I also n...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI

The enhancement request is that we want the ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI, bypassing the need to import actuals via .csv Import file or Cost Transparency.   For example after we have imported the current mo...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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