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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

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.
4 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...
4 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...
17 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...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1

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

Improved forecast data in BI charts (Based off last complete day)

Id like to see improved forecasting from historical data based off of set lookback periods. Ideally this would be available within an Apptio BI widget visualization to show what the next week/month/quarter spend will be based off the last complete...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Allow Sharing of CFP Plans with permission assignment via API

The CFP api documentation doesn't include a facility to programmatically share plans. This would be very useful where a plan has large numbers of cost objects. Without this there is a large manual overhead in sharing plans. This could be done in b...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Future consideration

Ability to audit changes to budget values in CFP

Having the ability to track when and why budget values were changed in CFP would be useful. Auditing such changes is important in the same way as it is for forecasts. However, it isn't possible to do this with Budgets at present e.g. no comments f...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1