News & Events
Excel Users Embrace IBM Planning Analytics
Microsoft Excel is the tool CFOs and finance professionals love to hate. The problem is often a result of trying to use Excel for complex financial planning and analysis. Excel is simply the wrong tool for that job. In fact, a BARC…
July 16, 2018
Nucleus Research Finds IBM’s Corporate Performance Management Solutions Focus on Personal Functionality and Usability
Nucleus Research’s “CPM Technology Value Matrix 2017” named IBM a leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions and found that “recent changes to its CPM products focus both on personal functionality and usability, empowering a greater diversity of individual users with more…
July 11, 2018
Embracing Continuous Planning
The old school annual budgeting and planning process is just that – old school. Today’s forward-thinking FP&A executives, managers, and analysts instead are embracing continuous planning and rolling forecasting. Rolling forecasting is the process of simulating profit and loss for a company…
June 18, 2018
The Customer Insights’ Imperative for CMOs
“The most critical capability of the CMO is to have a profound, deep understanding of customers and their needs and know how to engage and serve them. This of course involves knowledge of data and analytics. – Jamie Moldafsky, CMO, Wells Fargo,…
June 7, 2018
TM1 Users Survey Reveals Plans for Migrating to IBM Planning Analytics
Revelwood's recent survey of TM1 users uncovered when and why many organizations are planning to migrate from IBM Cognos TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics. The survey, which was conducted in Q4 2017, found that more than one quarter of respondents who are…
March 15, 2018
New Subscription-based Pricing for Revelwood’s TM1 & IBM Planning Analytics Help Desk
Most of us have workdays that force us to choose between spending time on tasks that are urgent versus tasks that are vital. As a TM1 or IBM Planning Analytics administrator, that may mean having to answer urgent (or, really not-so-urgent) general…
January 25, 2018
Net Promoter Score and Customer Outcomes
We’ve worked with hundreds of companies who primarily measure their customer relationships with one metric: Net Promoter Score (NPS). NPS measures customer experience and predicts business growth by asking one simple question: how likely are you to recommend the company's product or service?…
January 15, 2018
Turn Forecasting into a Competitive Advantage
Have you thought about how to turn financial forecasting into a competitive advantage? In today’s disruptive, high-stakes economy, maximizing any and every competitive advantage can mean the difference between just surviving versus thriving. And if you did turn your standard forecasting activities…
January 2, 2018
Cognitive Computing Adopters are More Profitable & Innovative than Their Peers
According to a report from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 89% of cognitive computing adopters are more profitable and more innovative than their industry peers. That’s an incredibly strong argument for embracing – or if you are not yet ready, exploring…