IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Troubleshooting Planning Analytics for Excel
Did you know there are some easy approaches to troubleshooting IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? Given that PAx is an Excel add-in, sometimes things go wrong. Do you know the basic steps to take when a user says that PAx isn’t…
June 11, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Setting Default Members
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics has a new function called “Default Members?" This is different from default subsets. Default members are what is used if you were to simply drag a dimension into a Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx) sheet or…
November 27, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Conditional Feeders
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics can minimize the amount of feeder data via an approach called a "conditional feeder?" A conditional feeder is exactly what it sounds like - it only feeds when a certain condition is met. In a previous…
September 11, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using Attributes
Did you know that element attributes in TM1 and IBM Planning Analytics can be used for more than just making report aliases? They can be utilized by the system itself to better manage data flow, and to make it easier to trace…
September 4, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: String Feeders
Did you know feeding based on string values can be tricky? Anyone that has developed in TM1/IBM Planning Analytics before knows full well the importance of a well-written feeder statement. An example of this is when we have a cube with string…
August 28, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Customizing PAW Directory Installation on Windows Server 2016
Did you know you can customize IBM Planning Analytics Workspace directory installation? It’s getting more and more common to have a small C:\ drive for booting and then having a separate drive to store data. This approach makes it easier to have…
June 5, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Parameters for TurboIntegrator
Did you know you can create a temporary VIEW or SUBSET Turbo Integrator function in IBM Planning Analytics? Here's why you may need to, and how to do so. IBM has gone to great lengths to ensure that the transition to Planning…
February 13, 2018
Meet Alex Needham: Ridding the World of Inefficient Planning and Reporting
I started my career in the automotive industry. I started off as an intern and worked my way up to FP&A coordinator / assistant manager over five years. During this time, I realized how much time our Financial team wasted on horrifically…