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Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Apptio 1 Future consideration

Proactive Support for Long Running Threads

Hi Guys, I raised this ticket last night and as part of the investigation the team identified long running threads that they performed maintenance on, we noticed a very sharp increase in Dev Environment responsiveness and performance. It’s been an...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Bulk Edit for Versioned Tables

Adding the ability to bulk edit versions (create/delete) would allow for easier management of table versioning in Apptio.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Provide and option to adjust the display names for Departments and Projects dropdown in the ITP UI based on client's naming convention to make it more user friendly

We are facing a situation where we need to use two different hierarchies within Planning: a regional hierarchy and a product line hierarchy. The product line hierarchy will also be used for the approval flow, with product line owners and product m...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration