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Immediate refresh of updated plan data in CFP to Apptio BI

Currently when plans are updated in CFP, changes are updated after the overnight refresh into Apptio BI. It would be useful to have a refresh to BI kicked off as soon as plans are updated to limit the down time required to make changes to BI reports.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Audit Log for Plans

A feature that enables Audit Logs for plans is useful because it allows tracking as to how forecasts and budgets change over time. An audit log of changes would provide governance and visibility into changes in forecast. It would remove the necess...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

In CFP, Ability to View Forecast Variance by Month

[Cloudability Government] Currently on the Forecast Variance Details tab within CFP, you have the ability to see the Variance by Quarter or YTD. It would be beneficial for some of our applications to have the option of seeing a Monthly Variance as...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Submitted

Improve user experience when viewing Plan Properties

A user with access to a CFP plan that they are not a Plan Owner on can open the Plan "Properties" from the 3 dots menu in a plan and see the "Cost Metric" and "Forecast Model" settings, change them and click save. Although the save operation does ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Extend the CFP forecast to 5 years instead of 3

Customer is working on a 5 year cycle.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Functionality already exists

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.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Show forecast (estimate) data in Cloudability reporting

Create reports that use Estimates (forecast engine) as a data source. This would allow reports to be created using visualizations on future periods (days/weeks/months) to show what the next week/month/quarter spend will be based off the last compl...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Request to allow unsubscribe from Budget alerts with BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess permission

I checked the behavior of the role with permission BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess and confirmed that: Users with this permission can create/subscribe to Budget alerts However, they cannot edit or delete existing Budget subscriptions When attempting ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration