IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Best Practices for Hierarchies
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics hierarchies are used to see alternative data rollups in the same view? By default, all dimensions include a single hierarchy based on the original definition. Creating multiple hierarchies in a dimension is initially disabled in Planning…
June 25, 2019
Adaptive Insights Earned Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Award for Best Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions of 2019
Adaptive Insights recently earned the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Award for Best Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions of 2019 as reviewed by customers. Gartner Peer Insights is a “robust enterprise IT product and service review platform that hosts more than…
June 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Maintain a Hierarchy via a TurboIntegrator Process
Did you know it is best practice to maintain a hierarchy in Planning Analytics via TurboIntegrator (TI) process whenever possible? There are five key functions that can be used to do so. HierarchyExists(DimName, HierName) HierarchyExists is used to determine whether a specific…
June 18, 2019
FP&A Done Right: There Is Life After December – The Fixed Forecast Dilemma
While this may be an old concept, the Fixed Forecast Dilemma still holds true today. Not too long ago, this was a fairly arduous task, even if you wanted to undertake it. This is now primarily a mindset change because today’s planning,…
June 14, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Troubleshooting Planning Analytics for Excel
Did you know there are some easy approaches to troubleshooting IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)? Given that PAx is an Excel add-in, sometimes things go wrong. Do you know the basic steps to take when a user says that PAx isn’t…
June 11, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Planning Analytics Workspace Rule Editor, Part 2
This is a guest post from Shane Bethea. Did you know there are new features in the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Rule editor that were not in the TM1 Rule editor? Even if you are familiar with writing rules in TM1,…
June 4, 2019
Revelwood’s Insights on Adaptive Live 2019
In late May, Revelwood team members were among 1,600 finance professionals, Adaptive Insights team members, and Adaptive Insights partners and sponsors (Revelwood was a Bronze sponsor) attending Adaptive Live 2019 in Las Vegas. The two-day conference included keynotes, featured speakers, training, breakout…
June 3, 2019
FP&A Done Right: Creating a Shared Vision Between Finance and IT
I have seen the extremes of the Finance/IT relationship during my career as an FP&A professional. When I first started navigating the Finance space, any and all systems were ‘owned’ by IT. That’s simply how it was. There was this love/hate relationship…
May 31, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Planning Analytics Workspace Rule Editor, Part 1
This is a guest post from Shane Bethea. Did you know that most TM1/Planning Analytics development can now be done in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? PAW has a lot of development capabilities and allows modelers to do most development that would have…