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Apptio

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In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add a "pause" option for scheduled connector groups

It would helpful if there was an option to pause a scheduled connector group instead of having to completely remove the schedule when you don't want it to run and then add it back when you do. There are times when we need to bypass just one day of...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Versioning function

It would be great, if developer could see, immediately and without checking out the table, the table version including FROM date info and version history.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey.

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey. I point you to what other financial analysis tools can do he...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted