IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using Words Instead of Numbers
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how you can use words to input data in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) instead of numbers. In the old TM1-world, you had the ability to put…
March 3, 2020
Adaptive Insights Scores Highest in Gartner 2019 Critical Capabilities Report in Three Use Cases
Adaptive Insights earned the highest scores in the Gartner 2019 Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions report for lower midsize organization use cases, upper midsize use cases and for business unit use cases. Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial…
March 2, 2020
FP&A Done Right: How to Improve your Financial Reporting Process
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins discusses some of the challenges with traditional financial reporting processes. For FP&A, financial reporting is a tricky balancing act. If you share too many reports,…
February 28, 2020
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Hidden & Underutilized Adaptive Planning Features – Data Entry Sheet Type
In part one of a special focus on hidden and underutilized Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks, I am reviewing the GL Account option labeled “Data Entry Sheet Type" on the GL Accounts structure screen as follows, with the selection of a Roll-up…
February 26, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts
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. One of the tasks you can do in this interface is to…
February 25, 2020
What’s the Total Economic Impact of IBM Planning Analytics?
When potential clients are evaluating IBM Planning Analytics as a budgeting, planning and reporting solution, they often ask us for its ROI. It’s not a simple question to answer. Every organization’s business situation, and needs are unique to them. The corresponding implementation…
February 24, 2020
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Making Your Matrix Report Presentable and Meaningful
In today's Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks blog post, I explain how to make your matrix report presentable and meaningful. The in-application Matrix report writing tool is very powerful and enables you to do almost all the financial reporting your company requires. Adaptive…
February 19, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Reorder TM1 Cubes in Planning Analytics Workspace
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our PF&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates a new feature in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 2.0.44, that enables you to reorder TM1 cubes. Your TM1 cubes were likely designed for a specific…
February 18, 2020
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Trigger for a Cube Calculated Account
When you try to use the “actuals overlay” function in a cube calculated account to display actuals data from a modeled sheet, but you keep receiving a formula error that says "Cube Calculation Formulas must evaluate to zero when the cube's other…