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Review the impacted forecast lines updated & deleted by reference data changes

When reference data changes, could we add the ability to see the impacted forecast lines prior to updating the reference data? This would allow users to easily review and approve the changes. Currently, the only process I'm aware of is to create a...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable users to retain visibility of the current view in Apptio BI while scrolling down

When navigating through large datasets or dashboards, the view context often disappears as you scroll, making it difficult to know which section or filter you are currently in. Maintaining the view would improve usability and reduce errors when an...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Ability to subscribe to report with preconfigured filters

We have some generic reports. We would like to be able to offer users the ability to subscribe to those reports, but where they select the filters identifying the parts of the dataset that are of interest to them (and we have a single report to ma...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration