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Apptio Planning

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Ability to place where the YTD total is placed in ITP

Currently the YTD total column is only placed after the most recent month in the forecast.  I have users that would like to be able to pick where they place that to potentially see some actuals and future forecast, or only certain months of a...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to automatically update ITP reference data from CT with no manual intervention

As this idea, https://community.apptio.com/idea/automate-itp-ct-integration, suggests it would be very nice to automate the integration between ITP reference data and CT datasets. I understand there is a new product, ADM, that will support th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IT Planning IT Spend Waterfall Report Enhancement

As users of the built-in comparison reporting under the Planning -> Summary section of IT Planning, we'd like to request an enhancement to the 'IT Spend Waterfall' portion of the report where a user could click on the 'All Others' portion of th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Identify layouts used by users

Can there be something built to identify public layouts that are used by users, this would mean we can easily remove layouts that are no longer in use. There is no function to identify this currently. 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Targets in Apptio ITP

Wanting to document a requirement on how to set the targets in Apptio ITP on Fiscal Year basis. For example if the plan is open for multiple years FY2024-2026, currently target amounts are set for FY2024. So we'd need the ability to set the target...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Perform Sandbox Refresh

As an admin, I would like the ability to perform a sandbox refresh.  We refresh our sandbox on a monthly basis, and it would be helpful if there were an option for the admin team to go in and schedule the refresh on our own as opposed to open...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Layout creation must included all mandatory fields

When mandatory field is hidden, users don’t know it must be completed and as a result the row does not get saved. Request is that layouts should only be able to be created that include all mandatory fields. Main issue here is line is not getting s...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration