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Apptio Planning

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Default bookmark applied to all the users when they connect to IT Planning

As an Apptio Admin, I would like to create a default 'public' bookmark that will be applied to all the end-users when they connect to IT planning.This is required to display a default layout including all the important columns : the one that the e...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ITP Contracts tab - There should be more options for automatically accruing the contracts

More options for automatically accruing the contracts: annual, quarterly (with the possibility of setting the initial payment date).There need to be more options to spread the contract costs. Sometimes the payment is quarterly and contracts tab do...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Custom alerts for ITP

Customer would benefit from having the ability to create custom alerts to pass along info to their end users, like budget submission deadlines for CO owners and budget approval deadlines for managers.  Alerts should appear similar to how...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

View Only Contracts for Cost Center Managers

We need the ability to have cost center owners have View Only access to their contracts tab. Only specific teammates within ITP edit for IT and not the owners of the cost centers. @Nitin Ningaiah @Greg Hahn @Bob Kerhin @Sally Garski @Dina Buszkiew...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ITP Plan Specific Roles & RUles

Would be helpful if there were specific Roles & Rules tied to each ITP Plan rather than just one set for all ITP Plans
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Spend limit alert

When users introduce data in Planning, they are asking for an alert so that they don't exceed their budget. If for that cost line they can spend 1000 but in January 2024 they have written 1100, there should be some sort of alert. Same if they put ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Status: Email of Status with Plan Name

looking for the feature to send the email with plan name any plan is submitted and opened and approved by CC owner, Project owner and Department owner. 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review