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Search results: Apptio Planning

Changes for Creating a plan name

Since a plan name changes based upon selections under the Plan Name field, our suggestion is to move the plan name to the be the last field a user fills out prior to selecting the "Create Plan" option. Selections that modify the name include Plan ...
about 10 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Working Calendar improvements (groups and countries defaults)

Interested in being able to add employees to a group assigned to a working calendar instead of just individuals. For example if user is internal and location is USA use USA - Internal Calendar or some kind of mapping. Also interested to see the ab...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Replace Filtered Line Item Search Bar

In a plan click import a file and select "replace all data" and then add a "replace filtered line item". Then choose a dimension such as cost center. Now hit the drop down to select a cost center. We would like to see the option to have a search b...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Show All Attributes for IDs Existing Only in the Comparison Plan During Plan Comparison

When comparing two plans in IT Planning, records that exist only in the comparison plan currently display the ID and financial values, while all related attribute fields (such as descriptions, Account, Cost Object, Comments, WBS Budget and other m...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

User filter should automatically restrict results after search

We are experiencing an issue for our customer in Apptio Planning within Plan Settings > User Permissions. When opening the filter for the User Name column, a popup is displayed containing a search field, a Select All option, and the list of ava...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

"Replace All" functionality to actually replace all

Currently importing external data using the "Replace All" functionality only replaces rows for cost objects included in the uploaded CSV. Any existing cost objects that are not present in the file will remain in the Plan. This is counterintuitive ...
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Cost Center Hierarchies to all planning tables

We have 4 levels of cost center hierarchies. Executive management want to view the total budget group by Hierarchy 4 (Agency) to 1 (Cost Center/Cost Object) level to get the summary of budget at various levels. Below is the hierarchyAgency>Depa...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Enhance the Extension depreciation method to support year-wise extension and allocation instead of applying only after the asset end date.

Currently, the Extension method only distributes the remaining amount evenly after the asset end date, which limits flexibility for multi-year depreciation planning. Adding support for year-wise extension and allocation would provide more accurate...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Advanced Labor Allocation Rules - caps and floors on rules (eg x% capped at $2000, or y% but at least £30, etc)

It would be very useful to be able to specify minimum/maximum values for an allocation rule to produce Some percentage-based costs start or stop entirely at certain absolute £ values. EG we have a company car scheme worth 10% of salary, capped at ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Advanced Labor allocation Rules - %age of another rule's result (eg add tax to pension)

We have a problem in our Labor cost allocations where some costs have National Insurance (assume 15%) applied on top, eg annual bonus. In most cases elsewhere in the company, this looks like this:(Salary * 115%) * (bonus%) = total bonus payment. I...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted