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Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Bulk Edit for Versioned Tables

Adding the ability to bulk edit versions (create/delete) would allow for easier management of table versioning in Apptio.
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

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

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 4 Under review

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to click-through report instead of base report

We have a base report that has two drill down (click-through) reports, so the structure goes: Cloud Spend Analysis Report (Base) Category report Subcategory Report A user can select a category from the base report to then navigate to the category ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

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...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Export All should use a fixed column order, and not vary with my Layout

The current functionality is confusing and non-intuitive, and interferes with many assumptions about how process flow should work. "Export All" should be a trustworthy 'I don't know what I need, give me everything' button that I can drp into Excel...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Currency doesn't show in charts

Issue is with metric: Even if you tag the currency, it won't show in the charts and if currency is Euros, it also won't show the Euro sign.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted