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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 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey.

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey. I point you to what other financial analysis tools can do he...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

Calc Explorer should reflect full build times, including pre & post calcs

When reviewing Calc Explorer to understand calc times and trends, it doesn't reflect full build time which means our team has to go review the full build time in the build queue for addtional detail.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

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.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
5 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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