IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Global Settings in Overview Area of Exploration
Do you know how to define your global settings in the overview area of an IBM Planning Analytics Exploration? Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to manage and define these settings. Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks…
October 11, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Working with Two Time Zones in Google Calendar
Do you regularly work with others that are in a different time zone? If so, how often have you heard your counterpart tell you to “just determine my time by adding X hours to yours.” And how often have you messed up…
October 4, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Filter Option in Set Editor
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) update 76 introduced a new filter option in the set editor? Previously, you could create a filter or multiple filters and the set would show the members that meet the criteria for every filter.…
September 27, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: 21/21/21
Some of you may remember an Excel feature that we wrote about a while back, which explained how the DATE function will convert invalid dates into real ones. For example, DATE(2020,7,35) will be converted to August 4, 2020, since there are not…
September 20, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Beginning to Explore the Set Editor in Planning Analytics for Excel
The IBM Planning Analytics Set Editor is the equivalent to the TM1 Subset Editor for Architect and Perspectives, but with expanded functionality. Getting started with the set editor is as simple as double clicking on a dimension within your exploration. In this…
September 13, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Add Color to Multidimensional PAW Charts
Did you know you can add color to your multidimensional charts in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)? Adding colors can make your charts easier to read. Watch Lee Lazarow, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, demonstrate how to add different colors to PAW charts.…
September 6, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Control Objects from the Modeling Workbench
Did you know you can now create control objects in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) with update 76? This includes control cubes, control dimensions, and control processes. Previously, creating your own control objects required a TurboIntegrator (TI) process. Now it can be…
August 30, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Garbage Memory
I recently had a customer ask me why Windows was showing a much larger memory footprint than what was expected (based on their cube sizes). After further analyzing their model, we saw a large amount of garbage memory … which led to…
August 23, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts in PAW Models
Did you know there are shortcuts you can use in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) when creating new models? In legacy tools such as Architect, required that you create your dimensions, cubes, processes and chores one piece at a time. IBM Planning…