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Apptio BI with Waterfall Charts

Our team uses the most for budgeting and forecasting presentation is waterfall chart unfortunately it's not available in Apptio BI. If this could be added, it will be very helpful with our analysis and presentation. Thanks!
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

ADM Scheduling for Ref. data and actuals

Would it be possible to add scheduling functionality for ITP reference data and actuals in ADM? Currently, all connectors run independently, which can cause failures when dependencies exist. For example, Department reference data depends on Cost C...
30 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Run rate in ITP

It would be good to have a KPI in IT planning which displays the run rate. This would be helpful in forecasting. Run rate is the expected future cost if the current pace continues. For example: If your actual costs for January are $100,000, the an...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Option to generate and export monthly billing statements in PDF format using Datalink

In Apollo, Apptio solution the solution is adopted for billing process and invoices delivered in a pre-defined format (pdf). However, during each monthly cycle, exporting PDF invoices and placing them into the correct folder for auditing and Accou...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 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

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...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Planned for future release

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

"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 ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

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.
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration