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Apptio Planning

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Add compare feature for Labor

On other parts of the planning section in Apptio you can compare different plans to each other. Could we get that functionality in the labor section of the tool?
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

ITP Module: ITP> Expense > Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option

ITP Module: ITP Expense Summary/Labor/Contract/Other Tabs: Add Undo Option
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Spend Management in Planning to have option of defaulting to current fiscal year when logged in

The customer is currently on FY25 but the Spend Management opens once logged in to FY26. They would like a way to avoid manually picking the right fiscal year before updating their monthly actuals. Requesting an enhancement within Planning like TB...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Is a defect

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

URL link field

We would like to a add a field which is a URL link to supporting documentation
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Button to create logs for ITP performance

We have experienced ongoing slowness issues in IT Planning.  When submitting a ticket, we are told the only way a ticket can be researched is to take a video and provide a HAR file at the same time.  This takes a significant amount of ti...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Filter Behaviour in Planning Dashboard / Views

Similar to storing a filter in Expenses tabs via the Layout (e.g. Default Layout) storing a default filter in Dashboard view by Admin would be great.  Ideally can also define their own filters storing in their own "layout" that applies to das...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Sum Feature in Numeric Columns in Planning

Feature Request: Adding a Sum Feature to the bottom of Planning Tables when incorporating columns with numeric values, similar to how the amount columns are summed. 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0