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Apptio

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ADM option to publish to reference tables

We are not using ADM for our ITP publishes because we also have to manually publish our project lists to tables in TBM studio
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP Manual publishes result in 1 build after the final publish

Every night at 5 pm, we publish 5 tables from ITP to Cost Transparency. Each publish creates a separate calc in TBM Studio. In order to save time, we have to cancel the running calc so all builds roll up. This is a manual process.
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add a "pause" option for scheduled connector groups

It would helpful if there was an option to pause a scheduled connector group instead of having to completely remove the schedule when you don't want it to run and then add it back when you do. There are times when we need to bypass just one day of...
15 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Versioning function

It would be great, if developer could see, immediately and without checking out the table, the table version including FROM date info and version history.
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Do not throw error for unneeded columns in imports that are present in the export file

Importing a file directly produced by the export data action should not throw any errors. The system should be able to export and immediately reimport with no issues or alterations to the data required by the user. I understand that cost center co...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted