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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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

It will be great if Cloud Total Cost / TBM Studio has the feature to copy table from another table

It will be great if Cloud total Cost / TBM Studio has the feature to copy table from another table (Just like how we can create a new copy report from an existing report. This will help during configuration in multiple ways: a. When we realize tha...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Allow External data upload for ADM

It would be helpful to enable EXTERNAL data uploads from TBM Studio via ADM to Apptio Planning. These files contain centrally managed forecasts (not edited by users) calculated in the TBM Studio but today must be exported to CSV and reuploaded. Au...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Multiple scheduling options in a single day - instead of just once schedule per day

Like Datalink we should get an option to schedule multiple connectors in ADM to sync up Cloudy and Studio. Use-case :- A single connector is helpful if we have a fix time when Cloudy is getting updated and that too just once a day. However, in ord...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Audit Log Files JSON Format

After the IWA upgrade from 9.5.3 to 10.2.2, DB logs were showing the JSON format. We tried upgrading to 10.2.5 as well. We are doing audits on a weekly basis, and as part of this process, we retrieve the database logs from the path mentioned below...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

The visible columns in the Variance Analysis (Detailed Actuals section) need to be customizable.

My client (Flowers Foods US) has requested to see account number in the actuals section of the variance analysis. This section is not customizable. We need to have a "show hide columns" feature on this view to bring in the account number.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration