Understanding xP&A – Extended Planning & Analysis
Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) is an enterprise planning strategy that combines and extends financial and operational planning. According to Gartner, “Taking the ‘F’ out of FP&A offers cross-organization leaders an ‘extended,’ holistic view of their company’s operations, so that they can…
June 7, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Named Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for 2021
IBM Planning Analytics was named a Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis. The solution received an overall peer rating of 4.6 on a scale of 5, with 68% of votes giving the product 5 stars. 92% of…
April 15, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Predictions of “Extraordinary” Growth This Year
2020 disrupted nearly every industry – some in good ways, some in bad ways. With the pandemic still impacting our daily lives, we might expect this year to be uncertain too. But perhaps not! The 2021 BDO Middle Market CFO Outlook Survey…
March 26, 2021
Workday Adaptive Planning Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions 2020
Workday Adaptive Planning was named a leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions. According to the report, “Surveyed reference customers placed Workday Adaptive Planning in the highest quartile in seven of the nine key areas…
October 15, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Aggregate Function
Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn about the aggregate function. Lee Lazarow, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology director, demonstrates this new function that allows you to summarize values that cannot be added up or averaged. You’ll see Lee…
October 13, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Scores 13 Top Rankings and 21 Leading Positions in BARC’s The Planning Survey 20
IBM Planning Analytics, which is built on the well-known and proven TM1 engine, received numerous high marks in this year’s annual Planning Survey from BARC. The survey provides a “detailed quantitative analysis of why customers buy planning tools, what they use them…
October 5, 2020
Office of Finance Benchmark Data
Do you know how your Office of Finance compares to others? A recent report from Ventana Research looks at change in the Office of Finance and provides benchmarks against which senior finance executives can compare their departments against their peers. Ventana has…
September 28, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Using Drag & Drop to Change Selector Elements in PAx Reports
In our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, Lee Lazarow, Revelwood's FP&A technology director demonstrates how to change selector elements within IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx) using drag and drop functionality. This new feature enables you to do this…
September 15, 2020
Best-in-Class Companies Regularly Select Integrated Planning and Reporting Solutions
According to the recent BARC Score report, best-in-class companies regularly select integrated planning and reporting solutions, such as IBM Planning Analytics, over Excel or home-grown systems. This report gives an overview of the planning and analytics market and provides strengths and weaknesses…