Workday Adaptive Planning CFO Indicator Survey 2020: The Path to Finance Digital Transformation
Workday Adaptive Planning’s CFO Indicator Survey 2020: Finance Digital Transformation defines digital transformation as “the implementation and use of digital technologies such as the cloud, machine learning and augmented analytics, for finance processes to improve efficacy, insight and agility.” The Case for…
July 19, 2021
Extending Revelwood’s Office of Finance Offerings with BlackLine
These are exciting times here at Revelwood! We’ve spent the past 25 years working with the Office of Finance on enterprise planning – specifically, designing and implementing solutions based on IBM Planning Analytics, Workday Adaptive Planning, and our own accelerator tools and…
July 13, 2021
FP&A Done Right: 3 Strategic Skills for FP&A Leaders
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, recommending strategic skills for FP&A leaders. You stay late to meet your deadlines. You triple-check your reports to keep them error-free. You turn around one-off requests at the drop of…
July 9, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Is Your Planning Process Hindering Decision Making?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how and why you should foster a culture of planning. Long planning cycles. Short-lived plans. Siloed efforts. Hard-to-find errors. And never enough time for strategic analyses. Do these FP&A…
June 18, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Accessing Books
Did you know that there are now two ways to access books in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? Previously, you could access books via the “Shared", “Personal”, and “Users” folders in the bottom section of the home page. This option still…
June 8, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Volatile Business Conditions Require Agile Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how to lay the groundwork for business agility. Manual, spreadsheet-based planning may have worked well enough in a more predictable age. But today? Not so much. Volatile conditions demand a…
June 4, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Making Assets Accessible to Applications and Plans
When creating Applications and Plans in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), PAW views, PAW books, and websheets can be assigned to guide each step of the business process. These objects are collectively called “Assets." Although these objects are available from PAW books, they…
May 25, 2021
FP&A Done Right: Accurate Forecasting = Insightful Decisions
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how great financial forecasts can guide business strategy. If 2020 taught CFOs anything, it’s that they need well-executed financial forecasts and models from their FP&A team. Accurate forecasts help finance leaders…
May 21, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Feeding Using Cube Values
Feeders are one of the best ways to maximize the performance of rules. Essentially, feeders define where to perform calculations to better handle sparsity in a cube. There are many ways to reference feeder elements. One of these ways is by using…