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Review the impacted forecast lines updated & deleted by reference data changes

When reference data changes, could we add the ability to see the impacted forecast lines prior to updating the reference data? This would allow users to easily review and approve the changes. Currently, the only process I'm aware of is to create a...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists