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Apptio

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Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Line item filter that filters both ways - check for valid combinations

I have a situation where planners need to plan investments in Planning tool. I have created a custom dimension for investment and line item filter to filter the investment based on cost center. If the planner starts with entering a cost center, th...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

ad hoc report subscribtion

Ad hoc report subscriptions would allow users to automatically receive customized reports on-demand without the need to schedule them. Currently, sending on-demand reports requires subscribing end users to a report, which also generates confusing ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Logo Admin Enhancement Request

Add ability for Apptio Admins to view logos loaded for clients within AWS and be able to load or remove logos as needed vs having to submit a support ticket. Slack: https://apptio.slack.com/archives/C0H96R4AV/p1701989912244109?thread_ts=1701989152...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
10 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted