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Apptio Planning

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Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Export All should use a fixed column order, and not vary with my Layout

The current functionality is confusing and non-intuitive, and interferes with many assumptions about how process flow should work. "Export All" should be a trustworthy 'I don't know what I need, give me everything' button that I can drp into Excel...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Allow Multiple Apptio Planning Instances

We have multiple Apptio Planning in different environments but Apptio doesn't allow user to access multiple planning in different browser tabs. It's inconvenient when we are working or comparing different planning instances at the same time.
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

The visible columns in the Variance Analysis (Detailed Actuals section) need to be customizable.

My client (Flowers Foods US) has requested to see account number in the actuals section of the variance analysis. This section is not customizable. We need to have a "show hide columns" feature on this view to bring in the account number.
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

System Integration between Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism

We are using both IBM products (Apptio Planning and IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism). Apptio Planning is our IT Finance forecasting tool while IBM Cognos Analytics/Prism is our global centralized forecasting tool for the company. At the moment we are s...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provide and option to adjust the display names for Departments and Projects dropdown in the ITP UI based on client's naming convention to make it more user friendly

We are facing a situation where we need to use two different hierarchies within Planning: a regional hierarchy and a product line hierarchy. The product line hierarchy will also be used for the approval flow, with product line owners and product m...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration