IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Snap Commands – Sorting
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics has snap commands that allow you to use natural language wording to perform simple tasks? One example of this entails the use of sorting data within a view. We can start with a simple view that…
May 14, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Template Styles
Many of you know that Planning Analytics Workspace books allow you utilize templates, but did you know there is a difference between the options that show a solid frame vs. the options that show a dotted frame? Creating a new PAW book…
May 7, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Calculations
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics offers more than one way to add calculations to your data? The great thing about using Planning Analytics within Excel is that you can add additional calculations to your data set to help you further analyze…
April 30, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Cell Comments
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace allows you to add comments to your data set? During both planning and reporting cycles, many clients often ask how they can add comments into their data set. After all, the goal of a Planning…
April 23, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Tracing Calculations in Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you can trace the details of a calculation in an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace exploration? The following screen shot shows a simple revenue calculation that uses input values for Units and Unit Price. You can right click on…
March 26, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Buttons to run TI Processes
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) has new features? Version 2.0.39 of PAW introduced the ability for buttons to run Turbo Integrator processes. When creating a button, you now have the option to set the target to “Run Process”. Once…
March 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Features in PAW – Data Refresh
Did you know that there are new features in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? We'll cover these new features in the next few blog posts. Today, we'll discuss how you can set your data refresh definitions directly from the short cut bar. The…
March 12, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Swap Rows & Selectors in Planning Analytics Workspace
You know that you can easily swap rows and selectors in an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace view, but did you know that you can also easily select the row that will become the selected elements? The following PAW view shows quarterly data…
February 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Navigate Back to the Source
Have you ever been in a situation where you are looking at an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) view and quickly want to go back to that view? Did you know that PAW allows you to quickly navigate back to the source…