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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...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

VAT Feature, but Allocated in the Monthly Forecast Columns

The enhancement would work like the VAT feature but would adjust the monthly forecast by the tax adjusted amount. For example, the contract’s location is selected, the rate is multiplied by the contract amount, then the new tax adjusted contract a...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Sticky Filters In the Rightsizing Module

When a user is using the Rightsizing module they can "Add a Filter" to find the appropriate data that they are looking for. If they are in AWS EC2 and want to naviagate to AWS EBS, those applied filters fall off. This also happens when moving betw...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

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...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Please support Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) Billing Profile entity

In the MCA setup there is the option to define multiple billing profiles. Each billing profile will receive it's own monthly invoice, and shared scope reservations and savings plans will be shared within a billing profile only. Azure subscriptions...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

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...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration