FP&A Done Right: The Path to Great Reporting
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Planning, 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
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
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
Workday Adaptive Planning 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…
February 12, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Filtering in Planning Analytics
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to do filtering in Planning Analytics. Filtering in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) will make it easy for your users to select the data they want…
February 11, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel’s CONCAT and TEXTJOIN Functions
Microsoft Excel has recently introduced a new version of the CONCATENATE function called CONCAT. The purpose is similar in that the new function still combines text from multiple ranges and/or strings. CONCAT will eventually replace CONCATENATE, but Microsoft has not released plans…
February 4, 2020
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Adaptive Insights Tips & Tricks: Alternate Time Tree
Have you ever wanted to have an alternate time tree/ stratum rollup in Adaptive Insights? The current Adaptive Insight system only supports one stratum rollup and there is no “Time Attribute” available in the current system to group the different time periods…
January 29, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Reviewing Chores
In today’s IBM Planning Analytics video tutorial, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Larazow, demonstrates PAW v 2.0.43’s new approach that allows you to easily review the chores that are associated with a specific process. Once you have mastered the techniques Lee explains…