IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn the Excel CELL Formula
Excel is, and always will be, a powerful tool for the financial team. With so much power, there are many great Excel formulas that rarely get used. I recently had a situation where I wanted to easily replicate a sheet and have…
December 3, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Trimming Picklists
Did you know that IBM Planning Analytics includes a feature that helps trim the list of choices in a picklist as you type? There are many different ways to create picklists in TM1/Planning Analytics and Revelwood has previously written about creating picklist…
November 26, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Simplifying Dimension Maintenance
Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn how to simplify dimension maintenance in Planning Analytics. Once you master these easy techniques, you’ll be able to do all of your dimension maintenance from the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)…
November 19, 2019
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAx Control Objects
IBM Planning Analytics uses cubes to store metadata information such as security and attribute information. These automatically generated cubes are called control cubes (which I sometimes call “squiggle cubes”) and begin with a prefix of a right curly brace. Server Explorer used…
November 12, 2019
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn How to Use the Pivoting and Selecting Shortcut
Our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks tutorial video explains how and why you should use the pivoting and selecting shortcut. In this short video, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to pivot in exploration and select an element…
November 5, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Excel Feature – XLOOKUP
Did you know Excel has a new feature called XLOOKUP? For those of you who read these blogs regularly, you know that much of the focus is placed on IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks. However, I periodically also like to pass…
October 29, 2019
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn how to use Snap Commands in IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics has a feature, snap commands, that simplifies various routine tasks. In our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, Revelwood’s FP&A Technical Director, Lee Lazarow demonstrates how snap commands in Planning Analytics allow you to change computer jargon…
October 22, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The New Set Editor
IBM Planning Analytics contains a new set editor that makes it easy to manipulate the elements in a subset. This approach allows you to quickly add a single element, add a group of elements, or replace an existing set of elements. Once…
October 15, 2019
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Bookmarks in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
In our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, Revelwood’s FP&A Technical Director, Lee Lazarow explains and demonstrates how bookmarks work in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). Bookmarks in PAW are quick and easy to use and make a big difference…