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Search results: Apptio Planning

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Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP Automated Notifications - Ability to change their verbiage and logo

At every main phase of an IT Planning plan (opening, closing, etc.), communications are sent to cost center and department owners. In order for these emails to be more impactful to customers and for them to not be categorized as spam (or even as p...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Request variance explanation when line item does not exist in comparison plan

On behalf of Bjarne Sandholdt from Danfoss, I request the following enhancement on ITP Variance Analysis: Require providing an explanation for the variance in a project, when it falls within designated threshold, also when the line item exists i...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Exporting all Line Items in the selected currency to Excel file

Hi,   We discovered that Export Financial button doesn't work as expected. This has been spotted while we were testing multi currency feature in IT Planning.   Here is my step by step description of my actions (screenshots for more clari...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

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

Undo or CTRL+Z Button

We are having a recurring question in our client about the possibility of having some sort of UNDO function. Sometimes they introduce a value in the wrong cell, overwriting the one present in the cell. When they find out the mistake, they have no...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to have one role for Submit and one role for Edit. Currently they are combined

We often have delegation whereby the input users are not ultimately the submitters, and we don't want to accidently submit bulk plans where there is no authority to do so. A system control to prevent this, would be helpful for edit and submit duties.
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add OpEx and CapEx contracts in IT Planning Contracts tab

For our budget administrators, it is necessary to properly populate and organize their contracts tab in IT Planning.  By adding the functionality to allow for having both OpEx and CapEx contracts (and not just one or the other) they would be ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Manage all costs objects owned at one time

People who manage multiple cost objects have to manage each cost object separately today.  Customer would like the ability for users to manage all of the cost objects that they own at once.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0