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View-Based Filtering for Cost Ownership Accounts in Forecast Summary

Overview: We request the implementation of a filtering mechanism in the Forecast Summary page that limits the "Cost Ownership" dropdown to display only the accounts relevant to the selected planning view. Current Behavior: When creating a plan ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
7 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Intelligent Budget Reallocation & Forecast Adjustment in CFP

Right now, CFP only tells you when a team overspends but you have to fix it manually. Example: Finance sees that Marketing overspent budget by 10% in CFP. They must go into another system, reallocate budget, get approvals from Finance, and inform ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Planned for future release

Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Planned for future release