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Apptio

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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

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 2 Not under consideration

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

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

ADM disable load of actuals into closed months

The possibility to disable load of actuals into closed months can prevent loss of actuals that is currently happening by design in 2 different ways:    1. As Cost Object Ref Data is taken from last Period of CT that is open AND at th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements There are some capabilities in this space that highlight...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

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...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information