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Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Apptio Planning: Map Forecast Actual into Other Tabs

Currently actuals only appear on the Summary tab when Forecasting, it would be beneficial to see actual data in the other tabs, as well. Ideally, there would be a way to separate the actual data by tab when it flows into Planning, so actuals/forec...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Apptio Planning: Save Budget/Forecast Comparisons in Layouts

BACKGROUND: I created comparisons in my forecast for current and future years against another budget. Due to my plan length (5 years), I had to add comparisons via the individual columns (right clicking column header - Add Comparison...) and not t...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Add AI-specific Benchmarking Categories to Apptio Benchmarking Summary View

Request to add AI-specific benchmarking categories aligned with TBM v5 to Apptio, enabling organizations to compare AI-related costs against industry standards for better financial planning and transparency through the Benchmarking Summary view.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 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...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 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.
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Needs more information

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review