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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 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 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 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 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...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
26 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Enable Event Chaining for DL's that pull from Dev

Our company uses dev for our config of datalinks instead of staging due to our staging calc times being too long for our overnight processing. It would be great if we could leverage the event chaining with dev instead of scheduling our connector g...
14 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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.
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

It would be great to enable Error messages in TBM studio to export to Excel

Processing of error messages would be more efficient, if export to excel is available on this table. In particular in case there is a lot of errors or comparing the list after upgrade.
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Evaluation of data errors is useless for future periods

If there are missing data in future period for monthly Data refresh cycle, the errors are generated. It is obvious that actual data for future period are not available, so error report here is dirty. In case we change to Ad/hoc Data refresh cycle,...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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