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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

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

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...
8 months 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

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

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

Ability to set up/receive Budget Alerts

The ability to set up and receive budget alert emails is not enabled in the Gov Cldy version. It would be beneficial to be able to set up alerts to compare actual spending to a defined budget/forecast. Would it be possible to make the budget alert...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning Planned for future release

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Budgets needs a yearly/ytd budget alerting option and to set a yearly budget in non-cfp budgets

In the non-CFP Budgets feature we need the ability to input a yearly budget instead of only broken out by month. We want to setup a yearly budget and receive alerts for it. This isn't really fully possible today. We can get by creating a report an...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release