IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Working with Two Time Zones in Google Calendar
Do you regularly work with others that are in a different time zone? If so, how often have you heard your counterpart tell you to “just determine my time by adding X hours to yours.” And how often have you messed up…
October 4, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: 21/21/21
Some of you may remember an Excel feature that we wrote about a while back, which explained how the DATE function will convert invalid dates into real ones. For example, DATE(2020,7,35) will be converted to August 4, 2020, since there are not…
September 20, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Garbage Memory
I recently had a customer ask me why Windows was showing a much larger memory footprint than what was expected (based on their cube sizes). After further analyzing their model, we saw a large amount of garbage memory … which led to…
August 23, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel DELET Function
A while back I wrote a blog about the SCAN function which showed how you can search for specific characters and then combine this with the SUBST formula to create new sets of text. But what if you wanted an easier way…
July 26, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel MAXIFS and MINIFS
Many of you know that Excel’s MAX function will define the largest value within a range. And many of you also know that Excel’s SUMIFS function will allow you to merge IF checks into your sum formulas. But did you know that…
July 12, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel CubeDimensionCountGet Function
Have you ever written a TurboIntegrator process and needed to know how many dimensions are in a specific cube? Maybe you want to loop through each dimension to create a zero out view. You can do this by using the TABDIM function…
June 21, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel’s XMATCH Function
Have you ever wanted to search a list and define the position where it appears in the list? Maybe you want to know how many sales reps exceeded their quota or want to define how many products cost more than an approved purchase…
May 17, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel Workbook Stats
Have you ever wanted to know details about your existing worksheet or workbook such as the number of cells that contain data or the number of total sheets? In 2021, Microsoft Excel introduced a feature called Workbook Statistics that will provide details about…
May 3, 2022
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Unhide Multiple Excel Sheets
As you know, an Excel workbook can consist of multiple sheets. There are many instances where you may want to hide some of the sheets. It’s very fast and easy to hide sheets, but Excel historically allowed you to unhide only one sheet at…