FP&A Done Right: What is Financial Modeling?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins explains financial modeling. Financial modeling is like a superpower—one that lets you test your assumptions and hypotheses across dimensions, versions, and time before executing budgets…
March 6, 2020
FP&A Done Right: How to Improve your Financial Reporting Process
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins discusses some of the challenges with traditional financial reporting processes. For FP&A, financial reporting is a tricky balancing act. If you share too many reports,…
February 28, 2020
FP&A Done Right: 3 Barriers to Business Agility
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins examines what business agility really means for the Office of Finance. There’s a lot of talk these days about business agility. Yet it’s much more…
December 6, 2019
FP&A Done Right: Are you dying by the hands of analysis?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Anders Lui-Lindberg. Lui-Lindberg’s blog post fits perfectly with our series’ theme of sharing insights on how the Office of Finance can change from traditional budgeting and “business as usual”…
November 22, 2019
The GDPR and What This Means for You
This is a guest blog post from Revelwood's summer IT Policy Intern, Emily Kanter. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Europe’s new and improved data security legislation. It’s a complex 88-page document, comprised of 99 articles and 173 recitals (principles and…
September 18, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Maintain a Hierarchy via a TurboIntegrator Process
Did you know it is best practice to maintain a hierarchy in Planning Analytics via TurboIntegrator (TI) process whenever possible? There are five key functions that can be used to do so. HierarchyExists(DimName, HierName) HierarchyExists is used to determine whether a specific…
June 18, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Planning Analytics Workspace Rule Editor, Part 2
This is a guest post from Shane Bethea. Did you know there are new features in the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Rule editor that were not in the TM1 Rule editor? Even if you are familiar with writing rules in TM1,…
June 4, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Planning Analytics Workspace Rule Editor, Part 1
This is a guest post from Shane Bethea. Did you know that most TM1/Planning Analytics development can now be done in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? PAW has a lot of development capabilities and allows modelers to do most development that would have…
May 28, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Your Favorite TM1 Features Did Not Go Away
This is a guest blog post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. TM1 customers worldwide are upgrading and migrating to IBM Planning Analytics. Regardless of where you are in your upgrade or migration process, there’s a very important point you should know: you will…