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Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
about 7 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Adding in the ability to use formulas in Apptio Planning.

I would like to discuss the idea of adding in the ability to create formulas within Apptio Planning. In NatWest we would like to be able to use our the Labour and associated cost data to calculate an internal day rate cost for our staff, this Day ...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan-level permissions should have a way to sync with the global permissions

Currently (Planning v 1.x) when a Plan is created, it takes the global permission set as a temlate, and keeps it. When we do an update - adding a new user, removing users, changing who edits which Cost Object, etc - this has to be made in every op...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Improve Extension Adjustment on Contracts tab for YoY Changes

Currently, when applying the extension adjustment in coordination with the Extend feature on the contracts tab, it is applying this percentage to the first extension, but not future years. This means that if clients are trying to multiyear plan an...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Fiscal-Year Awareness and Date Variable Offsets in Apptio Datalink Connectors

Apptio Datalink date variables currently resolve strictly to calendar-year logic and do not respect an organization’s configured fiscal calendar. In addition, while period offsets (e.g., -1, +1) can be applied when selecting time periods in the UI...
3 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

ServiceNow Custom Connector Enhancements

We would like the ServiceNow Custom connector to have a similar source component tab option as it is available in the ServiceNow Financials. This will allow to filter the ServiceNow data by date and columns.
10 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Under review

An enhancement to allow users to land on the last edited or last viewed plan by default.

Currently, Apptio Planning defaults to the Active plan upon login, which disrupts workflow continuity. We propose an enhancement to allow users to land on the last edited or last viewed plan by default. This change will improve usability, reduce n...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

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 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Can data link pull data from Azure ?

In my organization we can't create endpoints to enable REST API connectivity. Azure data lake is main data repository for us. In order to be in synch with other platforms we would need to take data from there.Would it be possible to create connect...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add MONITORING capability to have Datalink send email if a Datalink fails to customer configured email address

Proactive monitoring improves data accuracy and trust and enables customer administrators and IBM proserve to identify problems soon after failure. Silent Datalink failures can result in partial or bad data in the system that the end users may be ...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review