The Impact of COVID-19 on Lease Planning and Management
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every industry – and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. Corporate real estate and the real estate investment trust (REIT) industry are examples that have gone from fairly predictable scenarios to areas that…
August 10, 2020
FP&A Done Right: Reforecasting in a COVID-19 World – Best Practices you Can Implement Now
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Bob Hansen. The article shares insights from Workday’s internal finance leaders on how they are adjusting to the impact of COVID-19. COVID-19 has hit the entire world with unprecedented…
August 7, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Pass Context
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace sheets allow users to add buttons. These buttons can be used to navigate to different sheets or books, or even run processes. But did you know you can “pass context” from one book to another? Before beginning, ensure…
August 4, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Change Connection used by Quick Report
When working with IBM Planning Analytics templates in Excel, there may be instances where you need to change the instance that the cube references to pull or send data. In Perspectives, updating the source was as simple as updating the first parameter…
July 28, 2020
FP&A Done Right: FP&A Tips for Scenario Modeling During COVID-19
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Steve Dunne. It is a unique Q&A with Kinnari Desai, Workday’s senior director of corporate finance, on how Workday responded to the FP&A impact of COVID-19. Kinnari Desai, Workday’s…
July 24, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Edit Action Button
Action buttons in IBM Planning Analytics are a great utility that allow users to recalculate a sheet, navigate to another location, or run a TurboIntegrator process. As your models evolve, you may need to periodically revise your templates to maintain their functionality.…
July 21, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Comparing Sandboxes
Many of you know that you can create personal what-if scenarios in IBM Planning Analytics via the sandbox feature. This approach allows you quickly replicate an entire environment which includes all of the data, rules, input templates, and reports from your existing…
July 14, 2020
Technical Bulletin: Earlier Security Change Impacting MDX Reverted
IBM is undoing a recent security change in the next release of IBM Planning Analytics. In late June we issued a technical bulletin about version 2.0.9 of Planning Analytics that changed the way MDX expressions are generated for dimensions that have security…
July 10, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Merge an Icon and a Button, Part 2
In an earlier post, I showed how to merge a button onto an image in IBM Planning Analytics to create an easy-to-navigate user experience. However, as a developer I may forget which images are just images and which images contain buttons. To…