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Apptio Planning

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...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Show Read-only Variance Analysis for Forecast Plans in Final State

Currently Variance Analysis data and commentary is hidden when a forecast plan is moved to the Final state. A message appears saying "Variance Analysis is only available for Forecast plans in New and Open states.". Please change this to show the v...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Functionality already exists

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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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 ...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Add a look up feature for Currency in Planning.

We have over 70 currencies and it's difficult to find a currency. They are not in any specific order and the list is long. Adding a look up search feature would be a huge improvement for our end-users.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Different Decimal Precision Option for Non-Financial Numbers in Apptio Planning

Our labor data on the labor tab shows full time equivalent (FTE) in the quantity field. We have our number format set to 0 decimal places in company profile as cents are not necessary when displaying our financials. However, due to this rounding, ...
about 1 month 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...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Support service based planning (quantity * rate)

Most customer already are planning services either from external providers or even internally. A functionality similar to what is provided in Labor and Labor Activitity tab would be needed: Similar to Labor Tab: Allow user to enter a unit rate a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Planned for future release