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Apptio

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Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enable Event Chaining for DL's that pull from Dev

Our company uses dev for our config of datalinks instead of staging due to our staging calc times being too long for our overnight processing. It would be great if we could leverage the event chaining with dev instead of scheduling our connector g...
28 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

It would be great to enable Error messages in TBM studio to export to Excel

Processing of error messages would be more efficient, if export to excel is available on this table. In particular in case there is a lot of errors or comparing the list after upgrade.
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Evaluation of data errors is useless for future periods

If there are missing data in future period for monthly Data refresh cycle, the errors are generated. It is obvious that actual data for future period are not available, so error report here is dirty. In case we change to Ad/hoc Data refresh cycle,...
28 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 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

Option to add External labor data which is not editable by planners

In current scenario, planners are able to edit Labor data. We just want users to be able to view the labor data but not edit it. Is it possible to have "external" lines in Labor tab (similar to external lines in Asset and Financial tabs)? Currentl...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Under review

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release