IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Mekko Chart
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) offers many visualization options to allow you to show and analyze your data in creative ways. This includes standard chart types such as bar, line and pie. But it also includes some reports that are not always understood. One of…
September 21, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Defining a Process Within Existing Chores
There are times when you need to change a process within an existing chore in IBM Planning Analytics. The challenge is to understand what chores will be impacted by a change in a process. You could edit or remove and process and…
September 14, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Explorations – Row & Column Headers
Visualizations are used to provide an easy understanding of large data sets. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. However, what happens when you want to see the intricate details of your numbers? This is where IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) explorations come…
September 7, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Allocations
P&L planning models consist of a variety of inputs, including revenue planning and various forms of expense planning. In addition to these standard models, we are often asked to develop other planning components. One of these components entails an allocation process, which leads…
August 31, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Columns and Sections of Stacked Columns
Today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks post is a new video demonstrating how to define the columns and the sections of a stacked column chart. You will learn an approach that allows you to quickly view your data in different formats…
August 24, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel DATE Function Updated
Some of you may remember an Excel feature that I posted about last year 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 35 days…
August 17, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Lines vs Area for Multiple Elements
A line chart is typically used to show values over time. This type of chart is great to see trends with your data. An area chart is also used to show values over time and is sometimes referenced as a line chart…
August 10, 2021
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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Code Char
Have you ever written a TurboIntegrator script and wanted to check the first character of a value to see if it was a number or a letter? Have you ever needed to insert a single or double quote into a string without “breaking”…
August 3, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Depreciation
P&L planning models consist of a variety of inputs, including revenue planning and various forms of expense planning. In addition to these standards, we are often asked to develop other planning components. One of these components entails a depreciation process, which leads to…