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Finance Insights- Budget Proposal

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I'm having an issue in trying to create a budget proposal. It keeps saying "initialization failed" but doesn't give anymore details. Budget proposal is enabled within the system and I'm using at least three years of data. Has anyone else had this issue and know a way to resolve it? 
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    @CR-20071414-0 
    The initialization failed error in Finance Insights Budget Proposal almost always comes down to one of two things — flat data with no variance, or the Entity Store not syncing correctly to the Data Lake.

    On the data side — Finance Insights uses AI Builder to detect trends and seasonality. If your three years of historical data has perfectly constant values with no month-to-month variation, the AI training engine cannot initialize because there is no mathematical trend to analyze. Check whether your historical actuals show genuine variance across months and years. If you are in a Sandbox with test data, inject some variation into the historical figures to simulate real-world fluctuation.

    On the sync side — Finance Insights does not read directly from F&O SQL tables. It reads from the Entity Store pushed to Azure Data Lake. Go to System administration → Setup → Entity Store, find the Budget time series measure, ensure Automatic Refresh is enabled, and click Refresh to force a manual sync. Check the batch job history to confirm the sync completed without errors.

    If both of those are clean, log into Power Platform Admin Center and verify the AI Builder service is active on the Dataverse environment connected to your F&O instance and that you have not exceeded AI Builder credit capacity.

    Once you have confirmed data variance and a fresh Entity Store sync, delete the failed draft and generate a new Budget Proposal.

    Hope that helps — feel free to mark as verified if it resolves the issue.

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