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Calc Explorer Enhancement

Calc Explorer Enhancement - During a recent presentation from Apptio I was shown this new feature, and it is great but I queried if we can have previous periods viewable at the same time, maybe a trend in the UI labels? Increase/decrease numbers? ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

All pipeline steps should be able to have comments

Every pipeline step should have the ability to record comments so that other people can see why certain design decisions were made especially when they are not obvious. Why was this field renamed? Why have I grouped in this particular way? What is...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

ITP Respect Cost Object Permissions for Group Cost Centre Editors

In ITP today, we use group cost centre owners in the division heirachy for both editing, review and rollup purposes. These group cost centre owners only have Editor access in Cost Object Permssions, and do not have Owner access. However, when a gr...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Multiple Compensation Adjustment % depending on time period

Currently, adjustment % on Labor tab is applicable to a single adjustment date.  We have different COLA adjustment rates in different years (X% in 2023, Y% in 2024).  As a result, as we've moved to planning the next two years, our comp c...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Datalink (New) "Test Table" Button Behavior and Placement in Apptio Connector

The current behavior and placement of the "Test Table" button implies that you should be able to simply provide a source API and click the link to run a valid test. The link is disabled at first. But as soon as you provide a URL, the link becomes ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Improve Comments functionality.

Comments alerts are not intuitive and it's not easy for users to know they have a comment waiting. Suggestion: 1) Comments should be displayed as soon as you open a report 2) Comments should be able to be linked to a group of users or an individua...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Help functionality improvements.

Currently, the only help available takes you to the generic Apptio hello screens. This is not useful for our users because it in no way reflects the CBA model or reports or with CBA specific information. Suggestion: Ability to add field descriptio...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Changing labels is considered customisation.

Allow for a filed name and field display name to allow changes of field display names. Introduce "Language settings" which enable labels to be configured without customing and OOTB report.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Show only menu points user has permissions for (ITP)

In IT Planning menu only sections of Spend Management/Change History/Configuration can be hidden based on permissions.  Within Section of Planning, only the subpoints Dashboard & Variance Analysis can be hidden (from Company profile).&nbs...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Restrict Import Financials, Import Contracts, Import Asset, Import Labor functionality

We would like to restrict the access for Cost Center Owners to not be allowed to Import csv's into the various IT Planning tabs.  They should be allowed to Export but we have encountered many times where they have incorrectly imported files r...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review