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Enhanced Budget Variance Functionality in CFP

We would like to propose an enhancement in CFP to align the Budget Variance Details tab with the functionality currently available in the Forecast Variance Details tab. Specifically, we request that the same dimensions used when creating plans in ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Make CFP plan cost ownership permissions updatable via API or import of csv

Managing CFP plan permissions by cost ownership is the right model for our organization. However, the cost ownership dimension can contain 4,000+ unique values (applications), and each value can require a different combination of Cldy users and gr...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Allow the option of "taxes" in the "excluded spend" section when creating a financial plan.

Allow the option of "taxes" in the "excluded spend" section when creating a financial plan.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Retain visible columns selection when change date field Grouping options in CFP tables

A current UI annoyance experienced in tables within CFP is where changing the date fields used for grouping, using the Grouping pull out drawer, resets the columns that are shown in the table to the full list. This means any prior customisation of...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Show Latest Forecast Estimate: Actuals + Forecast

It would be very useful to be able to compare Forecast and Estimate, where the Forecast can comprise actuals data for completed months, as opposed to the original forecast. This would give a more helpful Forecast Variance position where the "Lates...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Refresh Forecast/Actuals/Estimate in CFP Plan without needed to create a new plan

When the base cost dimension changes, there is no way to update the forecast/Budget/actuals with that new information without creating a new plan.For instance, if the base dimensions are created from Account number and new accounts are created, yo...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Demote/hide visibility of the forecast model used in "Enhanced Forecast" (Beta)

the technical forecast model used to derive the forecast is shown as the second column in the details of a forecast. Whilst it may be interesting for some I don't think it would be for the marjority of users and just takes up screen real estate un...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Retain "Show Hierarchy" setting when switching between "Summary" and "Details" on Forecast tab

It is not so intuitive as a user that the Show Hierarchy setting revert to enabled if you have switched it off and then change from Summary to Details. It would be preferable to retain the current "Show Hierarchy" setting.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered