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The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
7 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Ability to create your own additional 'tabs' based on the 'other' tab functionality

The 'other' tab starts to grow in volume, and often becomes a 'catch all' for expense types. If we have specific categories that these costs can be broken down into, it would be great if we could separate onto another tab and rename to be more app...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to customise the Summary tab - drills and KPI's

the Summary Tab - Waterfall and graphs are very useful but would be could if we could hide some of the KPI's eg. Capex and update the drill columns. Our users really find this report useful but would be more widely accepted if we could update the ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to only allow certain user groups to import data to Planning

Importing directly to the system has risks related to overwriting the data, and an average user is not capable or trained to be able to complete this reliably. We would like for this option to be only with Admin, or select users at Admin discretion
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to load customised public views at a plan-level, rather than system-wide shared

We have multiple user types that will not share the use of the same plans, and so we would like to customise the public views each of the users can see by plan. Currently this is set/shared for all Plans within Planning.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Reporting that shows the financial impact of Changes at Towers, Services Business Units

As an Apptio Developer I would like to be able to see the impact of my changes in a report BEFORE I check in, against the cost metric at Resource Towers, Business Services and Business Unit allocation. Then I know that the changes I am making are ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
10 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Is a defect