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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

Reports on dashboards are scale to fit and do not have an option for scroll bars

The TargetProcess dashboard currently lacks a horizontal scroll (left-right) functionality, which makes it difficult to view reports or data with large content or multiple columns. This limitation impacts usability, especially when handling with w...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

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 open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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