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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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Deselect Automation for Labor in Planning

The main end users who utilize Planning desire the ability to "turn off" certain automation features/calculations that Planning performs. Specifically for this use case, users would like the ability to not have the monthly projections "overwritten...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Datalink Strict Upload - Status Message

Datalink Financial provides strict upload feature, it would be nice if the error message / status message shows the information more precisely. It should show "Failed" in case of the connectors which have failed other's should be "Halted" or som...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Calc Management - Prioritization for Users

The idea is to add a user dimension in the Calc Management tool to prioritize calculations from specific user/group of users. 
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Attach PDFs to Contracts in ITPF

As a Cost Center Owner, I’d like to be able to attach our PDF contract to our contract line item so that I can easily identify, align and manage our contracts with our vendors.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can look up a contract name ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Apptio Authorization with GCP Service Account

Objective User Role: System User Goal: Enable secure authorization for Apptio with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using service accounts. Ideal Approach: Implement authorization via workload identity, if not possible at least using service acc...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add Layout like feature to Summary and Dasboard Screen of Apptio IT Planning

The Layout feature in the Expenses view allows users to filter out certain cost centers and cost types giving them a perfect view of their responsibilities.  When the user goes to Summary or Dashboard Screen the layout is not available which ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Ability To Hide Columns On OOTB and Custom Objects

Hi support, based on feedback from @Mark Nealey on my discussion point here, I would like to propose the ability to do custom "hide columns" on OOTB and custom model objects. This will remove the unrequired columns for a customer's specific conf...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ability to Export Variance Analysis

Variance Analysis is limited, as only one version exists in ITP. Therefore it would be desirable to be able to export Variance Analysis in order to enable future reference/analysis against a specific time period. In turn this would offer the abili...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Ability to change Comparison variance sign

Would like the ability to display the comparison variance as either B/(W) or (B)/W
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to add filtering to ServiceNow OOTB Connectors

The ServiceNow OOTB connectors pull in more data than required and do not support the ability to filter. Allowing the user to select column(s) and pre-defined values would reduce the unnecessary data being ingested and reduce the need to use the c...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted