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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Time Period based on current month

As a Service Owner, I’d like to be able to switch between current month and month in arrear reports without having to update the time period so that I can see the data in those reports.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Properly validate formula in pipeline step

Currently if you have this formula =If(value< 99999, use-this, use-that) If use-this or use-that are invalid syntactically (for example do not exist) then we expect an error to be shown. However, if *current* data does not exercise one path the...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Numeric sort doesn't always sort as numeric

There are a number of places in Studio where sorting on a numeric field does not produce the expected result for negative values (appears to be sorting as a label).  For example in the Table step in the transform pipeline, an ascending sort y...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

List Of Component IDs

As part of ‘Report Search’ Apptio can gather component IDs without looking at the URLs. I ask if this can be done at a project/group/report levels, to gather all IDs and export to Excel.  I was recently in a situation where I had to gather th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Improved Variance Analysis in ITP: Exportable and Visualised using Waterfalls

Currently, Variance Analysis is a great function with a limited use case. You can explain variances, but there is no visualisation out of it and it doesn't fit real world use cases.  A use case that could allow me to sell this process to stak...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Implement transform pipeline better

The pipeline has been designed to give the appearance of multiple formula steps by, in the background, annotating which step a formula comes after - accordingly you can't have two formula steps one after another. It gives the apparent functionalit...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Hide and Rename - Keep Only option

Sometimes a table is based on a source that may at a later date add additional columns through configuration changes etc.  This may impact a dependent table, especially one that uses a pivot or unpivot.  A handy solution similar to the H...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Driver sensitivity analysis without having to re-upload to a ‘what-if’ branch

Customer's current workflow is to run a Budget/Forecast (as of a point in time) is to export the latest month’s transformed & consolidated rule/drivers set and upload that as a direct input into their Budget/Forecast models in the project (vs ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Copy connectors from one agent to Another OR Import & Export option

Admin should have the capability to copy a connector from one agent to another in on-prem implementation OR Ability to import and export connectors from one agent to another
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Benchmarking manually entry output will not allow to go back to 0.

When manually entering the FTE Data Review we are unable to change the output from 1 to 0. It was defaulted as 0 before accidentally changed and now no way to get it back. When changing from 1 to 2 this works just not back to 0.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Under review