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Apptio

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Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add user role(s) as column in user table shown on Apptio Access Administration home page

Problem:Right now you to determine what role a user has you need to click into an individual user record to see their details. There is no way for an admin to easily retrieve a list of all users in a particular role from the Access Administration ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Comprehensive list of components, versions and features per version added to help

Currently there is no list of components and what features are available per version.
4 months ago in Apptio / Help & Training 0 Submitted

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
4 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Provide a means to view all reports a user has access to in one place

All the available reports do not show under the Apptio BI "All" tab. It excludes the Apptio BI Reports. This is not intuitive. All is expect to mean All. It is true that the help pages do state that All: the "All" button Shows reports that you hav...
2 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

View by Week

Apptio BI reports offers a view by daily, monthly, quarterly and half-yearly at present. It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs. It would also be useful to customise the first day of the...
2 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Ticker or Flash page to announce unplanned downtime

There have been two zone-wide Apptio downtimes since Jan 2025. Both instances were long in duration, lasting more than 10 hours and it became a major problem for us fielding questions from users and our management teams. And the tool does not let ...
2 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
7 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Set a threshold to ignore fallout to a certain degree in model report

When checking the model report, even the slightest fallout of one dollar is shown. I´d like to be able to set a threshold like 1% or an absolute like 5k which than is ignored when displaying the report.
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted