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Apptio:::All notification and subscription features should support slack

We currently do not natively support slack notifications, and users of Apptio products that are heavy slack users are required to manually configure slack notifications using API's and webhooks. This idea suggestion is to integrate Apptio's notifi...
2 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
9 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Supporting CN43N and ME2K t-codes for SAP Datalink

The option to support both the CN43N and ME2K t-codes (as they are one of the more widely and commonly used t-codes) would allow the SAP Datalink feature to be more sound and efficient.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add a extra set of Variance Drivers and Comment to Variance Analysis so we can explain deviations year to date and also for the FY forecast

We are doing a monthly forecast and Variance analysis YTD so we can explain (add comments) to deviations from Budget to Actuals, In example Jan-Sep in October Forecast. But it will also be very helpfull if we also could do it for the Full Year to ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Resolve "BoxedStringOffset" vs "Long" label type errors

Costing stores label type data as either BoxedStringOffset or Long data types. Whether one or the other is used seems to depend on whether a formula was used to generate the label, and possibly which formula. A label field uploaded from an excel f...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Amortization that starts based on a date field for a line entry

Our finance users would like to see an option to start amortization based on a certain date entered for an existing line item or a newly created line item. It would work like the existing Amortize check option, but a new field that looks to the da...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan level mandatory fields/settings

We have different users in the tool with different processes and forecast types. One set of users has specific fields created in Planning for their process that aren’t required in other user’s processes. It would be nice to have the option to crea...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration