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Cloudability

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Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review

Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Needs more information

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Scope level access needed for CSA UI

In IBM , we have multiple AWS master payers from different business units onboarded onto our CSA instance as different scopes. The stakeholders for these master payers would like to get access to the CSA UI, to see their savings, utilization etc. ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Future consideration

Cloudability integration with Gen AI agents

Gen AI agents, combined with a Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) server, are incredibly useful for FinOps because they enable proactive, automated, and intelligent cost management across complex cloud environments. Multiple personas will benefit from it ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 2 Planned for future release