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Enhance Variance Analysis to group by the Project Hierarchy

Variance Analysis by the project hierarchy would be useful to see a high-level overview of what is forecasted by Project ID/Portfolio compared to what is budgeted/actually occurring. We're trying to drive adoption of portfolio views by expanding o...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users. We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT rol...
18 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
18 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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 ...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Add non calendar Financial Year Date Range options

Apptio BI only has a concept of a calendar year at present. Typically customers want to report by Financial Years. Where the customer's financial Year is not the calendar year this is not currently possible hence a core use case cannot be met. Thi...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Planned for future release

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
4 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Email Subscription of Reports: Increasing Character Limit, adding various fonts, hyperlinks and dynamic date in email body

University of Pennsylvania is looking to set up an email subscription to more than 200 users who can view the email in a specific format (which includes a different font of the email body- with bold, hyperlinks, dynamic dates, font options). The c...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

Implement ADM for Line Item Filters, Cost Object Permissions and Project Permissions in ITP

It will benefit all customers as the data transfer will be automated without requiring any manual effort
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Planned for future release

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration