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RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Apptio FrontDoor Create Cookie to Save Email for Next Login

BACKGROUND: We have Single Sign On configured and working for Apptio. Users need to type their email address each time they log in. Once they enter their email, the system logs them in via SSO. ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: In other SSO enabled systems, th...
8 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Allow External data upload for ADM

It would be helpful to enable EXTERNAL data uploads from TBM Studio via ADM to Apptio Planning. These files contain centrally managed forecasts (not edited by users) calculated in the TBM Studio but today must be exported to CSV and reuploaded. Au...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Multiple scheduling options in a single day - instead of just once schedule per day

Like Datalink we should get an option to schedule multiple connectors in ADM to sync up Cloudy and Studio. Use-case :- A single connector is helpful if we have a fix time when Cloudy is getting updated and that too just once a day. However, in ord...
11 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
22 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
9 months ago in Apptio 1 Future consideration