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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 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.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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 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

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

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 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to ensure targets also get filtered by project hierarchy

Currently, there is an option only to set/view targets at department level. We need an option to give or at least show Top-down-targets for both projects and departments. Currently, project owners see the full target value at each level within the...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

IT Planning Multi-Year Reference Data Option

As a TBMA supporting IT Planning, we have a use case for enabling multi-year functionality as it relates to our reference data, specifically Labor Rates and Labor Allocation Rules.  Our FP&A team is currently forecasting 3 years within a ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release