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Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Comprehensive list of components, versions and features per version added to help

Currently there is no list of components and what features are available per version.
6 months ago in Apptio / Help & Training 0 Submitted

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

View Only for Plans in New Status

As a TBMA I would like the ability to be able to provide select users with a role that would allow them View Only access to plans that are in New Status.    I will know this is complete when a Cost Center Owner or person in a specially d...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to create a filter on Contract Expiry Dates for xx number of months, instead of just a date

We want to have layouts and filters to be able to quickly see when contracts are expiring in xx number of months. At the moment, the filter is just entering in a date, which is not dynamic enough as you roll through months. Can this be uplifted to...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Modelled Reports

As TBMA a lot of our time is consumed explaining to  our stakeholders via various means- reports, ppt slides, endless meetings, comms, diagrams how cost flows from the bottom of the model ie cost source through all hierarchies to the Service ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
7 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted