IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PA Modeling – The Settings Editor
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that there is a new way to edit object settings in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? The Settings editor is new for PAW and gives the system administrator a clear,…
April 16, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PA Modeling – The Dimension Editor
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can quickly and easily create a new time dimension in the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Dimension editor? The following steps will automatically create a time dimension with a…
April 9, 2019
FP&A Done Right: “That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It!” – Challenge the Status Quo
“That’s the way we’ve always done it.” “I don’t know, we just send it to them every month.” AHHHHHH! Stop it! When I get that response; it is like fingernails on a chalk board to me. It sends shivers up and down my…
April 5, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The Benefits of Using Hierarchies
Did you know there are several benefits to using hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics? Hierarchies are one of the additional features available in Planning Analytics. The main benefit of hierarchies is that they enable users to see alternative data rollups in the…
April 2, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Tracing Calculations in Planning Analytics Workspace
Did you know that you can trace the details of a calculation in an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace exploration? The following screen shot shows a simple revenue calculation that uses input values for Units and Unit Price. You can right click on…
March 26, 2019
FP&A Done Right: Even Google Maps Requires a Starting Point
Current Location. Destination. That’s it. That is all you need to provide your favorite mapping app for it to create a route. No current location? You will not know where to begin or how long it will take to get there. No…
March 22, 2019
Can You Recover From Static Planning by 2020?
This is a guest blog post from Rob Hull, founder, Adaptive Insights. Scramble like hell to pull together a budget. Execute against that budget regardless of changes in the business. Repeat the budget scramble in 12 months. If your corporate planning process…
March 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Buttons to run TI Processes
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) has new features? Version 2.0.39 of PAW introduced the ability for buttons to run Turbo Integrator processes. When creating a button, you now have the option to set the target to “Run Process”. Once…
March 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Features in PAW – Data Refresh
Did you know that there are new features in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? We'll cover these new features in the next few blog posts. Today, we'll discuss how you can set your data refresh definitions directly from the short cut bar. The…