This article pertains to a three instance platform that has had its Enforcements set to the Apptio Best Practice standards. The Cost Transparency project is used as an example. If you have a custom project that uses the three-project stack format, you will substitute the name “Cost Transparency” for the name of your custom project.

Note: Configuration changes (Transforms, Reports, Modeling, Metrics) should be promoted from development to the stage environment frequently and not allowed into production until it has been validated and approved. This practice will empower TBMA’s with the benefits of testing for performance, calculation time, and data validation before any possible issues are delivered to the production environment.