Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Attributes, Accounts, Dimensions, Levels – What’s the Difference?
This week’s blog is about a question I have been asked multiple times over the last two years. It pertains to the cube sheet, and the difference between attributes, accounts, dimensions and levels in the way each enables, or disables, data entry…
April 1, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Multi-Level Dimensions
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to create multi-level dimensions in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). This new feature allows you to build brand-new dimensions by simply dragging a file onto your…
March 31, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Server Recycle
In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings much of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. This blog post explains how to do server recycle through the new…
March 24, 2020
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Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: How to Remove Repetitive Total Rows
In today’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I discuss how to remove from view the repetitive total rows which arise when dimensions are viewed in rows on a cube sheet. In a prior life, some of my students have had…
March 18, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Hold Feature
Today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video focuses on the new hold feature in Planning Analytics. Watch the video and you’ll see our Director of FP&A Technology, Lee Lazarow, demonstrate how to use the hold feature, which gives you the ability…
March 17, 2020
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: General Ledger Root Accounts
My last few Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog posts have focused on capabilities of Adaptive Insights that are hidden and/or under utilized. In today’s Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I discuss the importance of the General Ledger Root Accounts…
March 11, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Critical Alerts
In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings a great deal of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. One of the tasks you can do in this interface…
March 10, 2020
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
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Overriding the Level Security on Matrix Reports
Adaptive Insights has many capabilities customers often are unaware of, and potentially have not utilized in their instance. Some options are “off-screen” requiring the user to scroll to display, and hence a valuable option remains unnoticed not utilized. This is my second…