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Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Email Distribution Enhancements

The email subscription feature has been very useful in report delivery since it's launch in November 2024. It would be very beneficial if we had the ability to set up subscriptions via AD groups, allowing the tenants or cloud program primes to add...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

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...

Enhance Variance Analysis to group by the Project Hierarchy

Variance Analysis by the project hierarchy would be useful to see a high-level overview of what is forecasted by Project ID/Portfolio compared to what is budgeted/actually occurring. We're trying to drive adoption of portfolio views by expanding o...
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

Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users. We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT rol...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration