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Add a extra set of Variance Drivers and Comment to Variance Analysis so we can explain deviations year to date and also for the FY forecast

We are doing a monthly forecast and Variance analysis YTD so we can explain (add comments) to deviations from Budget to Actuals, In example Jan-Sep in October Forecast. But it will also be very helpfull if we also could do it for the Full Year to ...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

When duplicating an ApptioBI report, have the option to "bake in" any selected global report filters into all of the widgets as pre-visualisation filters, removing set filters in process.

There are several occasions when I take a generic report and wish to save it for others to use, but want to give them a report with fixed filters and less options. The idea is I have a generic report, I preselect the filters that configure what I ...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Page level filters

In the case of extensive reporting we might have different data on each page of the report. Thus, we need to have a page level filter, similar to dashboard level that only applies to current page and when using it does not affect other pages in th...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Expose container name as part of Kubernetes cost information

We would like to be able to generate dashboard based on Kubernetes costs and we need finer granularity than cluster name. It would be really helpful to also have the container name.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration