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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 ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

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...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

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...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

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.
30 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Allow CFP to forecast using any business metric

Open up CFP to allow to forecast any metric, built-in or custom . This would enable other use cases for customers. For example, allowing forecasting of sustainability metrics would allow carbon forecasting.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Flat Charge Forecasting

We have a flat charge that hits on the first of every month, but the forecasting feature will continue to estimate higher spend for that line item throughout the month even though it has never been higher. I tried using the enhanced forecast to ch...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Ensure Forecast Totals update consistently across tabs

By way of background, one finds that Forecast Totals are not updated consistently and at the same time across CFP. 1) I imported a modified forecast into the Plan 2) The system gives no confirmation that the import had completed or been successful...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Improve Forecast Import UI feedback

Currently there is no UI feedback when importing a forecast. As such it is not clear to the user whether the forecast data has been loaded and updated in CFP. This coupled with some issues with the Forecast Totals not updating make it difficult to...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Automatic Budget Breakdown

Would be fantastic if you could input one number, and an amount of months and have it break down this number automatically. If i have an 18 month budget, i need to break it down myself and paste it in 18 times. also if you could keep a counter of ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted