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Ability to Restrict Budget Visibility and Permissions

I would like to request an enhancement regarding the Budget functionality in Cloudability. Currently, when a budget is created, it is automatically visible to all users within the organization, and any user can modify or delete it. This behavior i...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 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 ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Future consideration

Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only opt...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Needs more information

Ability to have a daily budget alert based on a simple threshold (amount or percentage).

Need a daily email alert sent within 24 hours whenever any individual application goes over its daily cost threshold. Example of the Daily Cycle: Day-to-day process: April 2nd: Application "A" has a daily threshold of $50, but the actual cost is $...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Under review

Make Variance Alert Threshold Values More intuitive

At present, the threshold values for alerts are set as an exceedance value versus a baseline. It would be more intuitive if the threshold was set as a percentage of the baseline instead. To illustrate this, if I want to configure an alert that tri...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

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 ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning

Allow Plan Status to be seen ungrouped when cost object is hierarchical and allow Modified Date filtering

When a plan is based on a hierarchical business mapping as the cost object, viewing the Status page is not very user friendly. The status is grouped by one of the hierarchical business mapping dimensions. This means one cannot sort by the modified...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

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 ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release