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CFP: add an option to set up the scale from value (0 or lowest value)

CFP: add an option to switch the graph scale (for example Spend Over Time in Forecast Variance or Budget Variance tabs) between - scale from the lowest value and - scale from 0 We have the both needs to see the full scale (from 0) and the truncate...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

API Requests

Hello, We would really appreciate the ability to complete the following actions via API, related to Cloudability financial planning 1. GET "Last Modified Date" & "Last Modified By" from the "Status" tab of a plan. 2. GET & POST Permissions...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

API support with documentation for Enhancement Forecast

Customer is requesting documentation for the enhancement forecast but the API is not yet present. Request to get this supported.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

CFP: Add Approval Workflow to Plans in CFP

Apptio Planning (formerly IT Planning) provides an approval workflow process with trackabliity of those approvals/denials. Applying a similar process to the plans in CFP would be beneficial because it would allow to keep that auditability within t...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning Planned for future release

account level budgeting in tool and associated alerts

the ability to set a budget against an account id business dimension to then be tracked against account spend and create alerts
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Functionality already exists

Enhanced forecast - make the other category grouping optional

We have been using the new forecasting tool but when we try to get a more detailed forecast beyond say account id to include service name to see drivers but this exceeds the row limit and then other data is lumped into an other category where we c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Functionality already exists

Add an "Apply to All Months" option when creating Budgets, allowing users to populate the same budget value across all months with a single click instead of entering it manually for each month.

Add an "Apply to All Months" option when creating Budgets, allowing users to populate the same budget value across all months with a single click instead of entering it manually for each month. Additionally, introduce a budget history or saved tem...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Allow admins to bulk-create budgets across multiple views and set up email alert subscriptions on behalf of users

Currently, budgets are scoped at the individual View level, so organizations tracking budgets per application (e.g., 100 applications) must create a separate view for each one. There is no bulk or templated way to create budgets across many views ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Under review

Enhanced Forecast: add sharing options to include View and Budget

Can you please add sharing options like the "Explore" feature to include a selected view "Copy URL to share with View ID" In addition can you add a parameter to apply an existing budget? For example, I would like to share to an application owner t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Under review

As a user, I am looking to include six business dimensions for budgets and forecasting within Cloudability Financial Planning. The current limit is restricted to four.

The current budget and forecast workflow and costing allocations is set for six Business Dimensions. Unfortunately, this limitation is preventing full adoption and value for CFP within our FinOps model and practice.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Functionality already exists