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Search results: Apptio Planning

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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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Line item filter that filters both ways - check for valid combinations

I have a situation where planners need to plan investments in Planning tool. I have created a custom dimension for investment and line item filter to filter the investment based on cost center. If the planner starts with entering a cost center, th...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Department Filter Sorted by Department ID rather than Department Name

Currently Department Filter is filtered by Department Name rather than Department ID.  This can be confusing when searching for Departments, especially if user is used to work with IDs rather than Names.  The option to choose if Depart...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Increased Optionality for Labor Amortization

Our team has specific requirements for how salary is amortized monthly in a budget or forecast plan.  Each country in our organization has an estimated # of PTO and Holiday hours a month, that we would like to back out of our plan completely....
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Plan attributes restricted for editing with role based permissions

At many customers, there are requests to have specific attributes only visible or edited by the core management team. Since this is not possible, many are maintaining multiple plans or are forced to maintain those aspects outside of Apptio. This w...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP with ADM - Automatically Update Reference Data

@Sheetal Dehadaraya Recently, we did a demo of ADM to the customer A2A. The customer likes the feature "Automatically publish reference data imported from Cost Transparency". A2A would like to have also a feature for "Automatically Update Referenc...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Current row highlighted / visually formatted when editing in ITP

As ITP Users, we’d like the current row being edited/worked on to be highlighted (bolded or visually formatted) so that we can easily distinguish the row when working on one side of the row to the other. This will make updating rows easier when th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Ability to move the cursor inside a text field with a mouse click. Currently only keyboard works

In ITP when the user needs to edit description/comments, it is not possible to edit a particular word in the sentence using the mouse directly. Currently we click and use keyboard to navigate to the word. Request for ability  to use mous...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Finalizing the Plan Auto Approves the cost Object which is not correct behaviour

Case # 00341773 was closed stating that this is expected behavior and they asked us to raise an Idea.  The Problem is that client uses a new plan each month and the old one needs to be read only for the users. In order to make it re...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered