IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
How to Access and Read Planning Analytics for Excel Log Files
When Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) connects to your TM1 server, it's constantly working behind the scenes — making API calls to retrieve data, refresh reports, and keep your models in sync. Most of the time, this happens without a hitch. But…
July 7, 2026
How to Send Automatic Emails from Google Sheets
Google Sheets is one of the most popular tools for tracking tasks, projects, customer information, and business processes. Yet many teams still spend hours manually sending emails based on what's in those spreadsheets. If you've ever copied email addresses out of a…
June 30, 2026
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Goodbye Excel Groupings, Hello Toggle Buttons: A PAfE Win for Web Reports
Have you ever been in a situation where you have a very wide Excel report and want to allow your users to minimize the columns that appear? If so, one of the options at your disposal is the ability to group columns. This…
June 23, 2026
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Stop Building Shadow Sheets: Column-Level Access Rules Are Here in Workday Adaptive Planning
If you have spent any time building modeled sheets in Workday Adaptive Planning, you have inevitably run into the "hidden column" problem. You build a comprehensive, 20-column personnel or capital planning sheet. It works perfectly. But then, the client drops a common…
April 15, 2026
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
How to Use Diff View in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace to Track TI Script Changes
Have you ever been in a situation where you have a long TI script and need to change a few lines. You plan out the steps, make the first change, get ready for the second, and then hear the phone ring. After…
April 14, 2026
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Planning Center and Sheets Performance Evaluator
Required: The user will need access to the Planning Center permission to use the Planning Center and its features. Overview Workday Adaptive’s Planning Center can be found within modeling and is used to optimize model design and performance. The Planning Center is…
March 25, 2026
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
How to Handle Outliers in IBM Planning Analytics Predictive Modeling
Have you used Planning Analytics to generate a forecast and realized that your data might not be as clean as you wanted? Maybe the data is legitimately skewed, such as the massive swings that occurred during COVID. Or maybe the data has…
March 24, 2026
Revelwood’s Lee Lazarow and Ivan Cepero Named IBM Champions for 2026
Two members of the Revelwood team have been named IBM Champions for 2026: Lee Lazarow, our IBM Planning Analytics Practice Leader, and Ivan Cepero, our Senior Planning Analytics Consultant. The IBM Champions program recognizes non-IBM IT professionals, business leaders, developers, and educators…
March 20, 2026
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Connecting Plan Data to GL Accounts in Adaptive: A Method-by-Method Breakdown
In Adaptive there are three ways to link plan data to the General Ledger Accounts. The first method is default formulas. These are located in the GL accounts themselves. These formulas can be set to a formula or data entry, and can…