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ITP Manual publishes result in 1 build after the final publish

Every night at 5 pm, we publish 5 tables from ITP to Cost Transparency. Each publish creates a separate calc in TBM Studio. In order to save time, we have to cancel the running calc so all builds roll up. This is a manual process.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure NetApp Files

A capacity reservation covers matching capacity pools in the selected service level and region. When using capacity pools configured with cool access, only "hot" tier consumption is covered by the reservation benefit. Azure offer 30 different RI t...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Allow External data upload for ADM

It would be helpful to enable EXTERNAL data uploads from TBM Studio via ADM to Apptio Planning. These files contain centrally managed forecasts (not edited by users) calculated in the TBM Studio but today must be exported to CSV and reuploaded. Au...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration