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Suggest that Plan Level Permissions is a user selected preference in the Company Profile

Would be beneficial during deployment phase to have this disabled as the permissions is yet to be determined and multiple plans are created. Establishing the same view across plans and over time is diffult to manage. When handover is completed, cu...
about 5 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Adding a freeform description field for connectors

This will help admin quickly identify what the connector is being used for in a language they can understand.
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Amortization that starts based on a date field for a line entry

Our finance users would like to see an option to start amortization based on a certain date entered for an existing line item or a newly created line item. It would work like the existing Amortize check option, but a new field that looks to the da...
30 minutes ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Plan level mandatory fields/settings

We have different users in the tool with different processes and forecast types. One set of users has specific fields created in Planning for their process that aren’t required in other user’s processes. It would be nice to have the option to crea...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

445 Calendar - "Other" expenses, spread per calendar days instead of evenly spread

Using a FisCal setup with 445 weeks per quarter, one would expect that spreading of amounts entered in a quarter is spread by 4-4-5 weeks in P(1-3) instead of evenly between the 3 periods.
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Entity Management + Producer and maybe Subscribers columns

It would be nice if the Entity Management page allowed the user to show the Producer column to make it clearer if an entity is targeting a project for upload, or if it is a producer for subscribers. It would also be nice to be able to include a co...
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Entity errors should say more or link to Change History records

When an entity shows an error in the Status page, then the user should be able to click on that and have it either show them more about the error, or link to the relevant record in the Change History so they can get to the error details easily.
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Change History should highlight errors

When viewing the change history, it should be clear which events have associated errors. This could be as simple as a "Status" column with the status code shown if you click into the details of an individual record. Please see the attached screens...
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Improved multi-currency support for SaaS data

With the platform now able to ingest data from more sources (SaaS products etc.) the multi-currency support needs more flexibility. My specific use case is: - Multi-currency used to convert AWS data from USD to local currency - works fine as expec...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Automatic Assignement of Recommendations generated by Rightsizing Policies

Currently these recommendations are "unassigned" and they must be manually assigned. FinOps team spends a lot of time doing this. Being able to specify a recipient for every "Project" would simplify this task
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted