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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 ...
4 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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report 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...
about 1 year 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

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...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
4 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

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...
28 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...
28 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release