IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Ranked Report
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel (PAx) provides several tools to view, maintain, and report on your Planning Analytics data? Dynamic Reports, one of the PAx reporting tools, allows you to create flexible reports with personalized formatting. An example…
January 23, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using MDX to Compare Dimension Hierarchies
This is a guest post by Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know you can use MDX to compare dimension hierarchies? IBM Cognos TM1 dimensions often have multiple hierarchies that should all roll up to the same total. Said another way, these separate…
January 16, 2018
Net Promoter Score and Customer Outcomes
We’ve worked with hundreds of companies who primarily measure their customer relationships with one metric: Net Promoter Score (NPS). NPS measures customer experience and predicts business growth by asking one simple question: how likely are you to recommend the company's product or service?…
January 15, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Converting Reports to PAx
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood’s Nicole Frigo. Did you know you can easily convert existing Perspective reports to IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? Converting reports and upgrading action buttons require just a few simple steps when transitioning to…
December 19, 2017
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Custom landing pages for TM1 Web
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood’s Susan Musselman. Did you know you can not only set up a landing page for IBM Cognos TM1 Web, but you can also set up custom landing pages for different groups of users? Here's…
December 12, 2017
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Tips & Tricks for Using TM1 – Variance Analysis in IBM Cognos TM1
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood's Susan Musselman. Did you know many companies find it beneficial to do a variance analysis to identify differences between the planned financial outcomes and the actual financial outcomes? Many clients prefer to store account…
November 22, 2017
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks- Creating Dynamic, Attractive Views and Dashboards
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to create dynamic, attractive views and dashboards? With the vast number of stylistic options available, there are a few key tips that can be used to create a fluid user experience. Use…
November 1, 2017
New Research: Cognitive Computing will be a Game-Changer for Marketing
Marketing leaders—those outperforming their peers—recognize that cognitive computing and artificial intelligence technologies are game-changers for marketing. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently conducted a study examining how likely Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and heads of sales are to embrace cognitive computing.…
October 19, 2017
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Tips & Tricks for using IBM Planning Analytics – Creating TM1/Planning Analytics Picklist Cubes
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood’s Shane Bethea. Did you know Picklists can be used in TM1/Planning Analytics to allow your users to pick values from a predefined, non-changing list of values? These can be setup as a static list…