IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: 21/21/21
Some of you may remember an Excel feature that we wrote about a while back, which explained how the DATE function will convert invalid dates into real ones. For example, DATE(2020,7,35) will be converted to August 4, 2020, since there are not…
September 20, 2022
Internships at Revelwood: “We Have a Purpose, and We’re Making an Impact”
An internship is a professional learning experience that offers useful, practical work related to a student’s field of study or career interest. Here at Revelwood, we make a significant investment in our internship program. Revelwood’s goal with the program is to provide…
September 16, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Driving Sustainability
As part of our series on ESG reporting, we are featuring guest blog posts from our partners. This post from BlackLine explains how the finance team can take the driver’s seat when it comes to sustainability. Consumers are increasingly looking to do…
September 15, 2022
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Creating an Excel File Data Source
Did you know you can create an Excel file spreadsheet data source for Workday Adaptive Planning? Watch Dave Miersch, Revelwood’s Practice Leader for Workday Adaptive Planning, demonstrate how to create and use an Excel file as a data source for Adaptive Planning.…
September 14, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Beginning to Explore the Set Editor in Planning Analytics for Excel
The IBM Planning Analytics Set Editor is the equivalent to the TM1 Subset Editor for Architect and Perspectives, but with expanded functionality. Getting started with the set editor is as simple as double clicking on a dimension within your exploration. In this…
September 13, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Add Color to Multidimensional PAW Charts
Did you know you can add color to your multidimensional charts in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? Adding colors can make your charts easier to read. Watch Lee Lazarow, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, demonstrate how to add different colors to PAW charts.…
September 6, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Control Objects from the Modeling Workbench
Did you know you can now create control objects in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) with update 76? This includes control cubes, control dimensions, and control processes. Previously, creating your own control objects required a TurboIntegrator (TI) process. Now it can be…
August 30, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Garbage Memory
I recently had a customer ask me why Windows was showing a much larger memory footprint than what was expected (based on their cube sizes). After further analyzing their model, we saw a large amount of garbage memory … which led to…
August 23, 2022
FP&A Done Right: Forecasting Revenue for Services-Based Businesses: A Growth Factor
More than half of professional services firms can’t forecast project revenue beyond six months. Workday’s Mark David and Justin Joseph share insights into how organizations can get revenue forecasting right, even when business is anything but usual. What is it about revenue…