IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Best Practices for Hierarchies
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics hierarchies are used to see alternative data rollups in the same view? By default, all dimensions include a single hierarchy based on the original definition. Creating multiple hierarchies in a dimension is initially disabled in Planning…
June 25, 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: Troubleshooting Planning Analytics for Excel
Did you know there are some easy approaches to troubleshooting IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? Given that PAx is an Excel add-in, sometimes things go wrong. Do you know the basic steps to take when a user says that PAx isn’t…
June 11, 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
FP&A Done Right: How to Improve Cross-team Collaboration
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights. When it comes to business, collaboration is vital. After all, no single department can do its job for long without the other departments pulling their own weight. Sales is no good if shipping…
May 3, 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…
April 29, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PA Modeling – The Settings Editor
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that there is a new way to edit object settings in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? The Settings editor is new for PAW and gives the system administrator a clear,…
April 16, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PA Modeling – The Dimension Editor
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can quickly and easily create a new time dimension in the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Dimension editor? The following steps will automatically create a time dimension with a…