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Apptio

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Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Datalink Connection For Non-Billing GCP BigQuery Data Ingestion

As a TBMA, I my organization ingests GCP Billing data into TBM Studio for reporting. We also have other GCP-related costs from vendors, such as Kafka and MongoDB, that are not included in the GCP BigQuery Billing table. We need an automated TBM St...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Create a way to schedule or script the manual steps to refresh the source for Enriched Editable Tables

Enriched editable tables let us feed calculated data into the editable tables, however the data isn't able to update for new rows or overwritten data. A lookup in the script* can work when added/editing a row but if the source data changes after t...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

ADM sync directions could be separated to bi-directional and option to keep CT->ITP on hold, and automate ITP->CT.

Due to Cost Pools/Bill Codes/Dept reference data been added or modified for each month of a FY, we need to avoid the actual number been changed for prior months that already completed billing process.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to Variance Analysis

In addition to the capability to compare the variance for Full Year (FY) between to forecast plans (actuals + forecast) in Variance Analysis. We still need improvements before we can migrate from our current approach (outside of Apptio) to using V...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Apptio BI - Limit number of "legend items" on charts to aid visibility

Apptio BI stacked bar charts require the ability to limit the number of items to include in the widget (example, "limit results to: "). For our cloud reporting, we want to use a widget to showcase a stacked chart of Cloud services used. For our en...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration