IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Snap Commands – Sorting
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics has snap commands that allow you to use natural language wording to perform simple tasks? One example of this entails the use of sorting data within a view. We can start with a simple view that…
May 14, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Template Styles
Many of you know that Planning Analytics Workspace books allow you utilize templates, but did you know there is a difference between the options that show a solid frame vs. the options that show a dotted frame? Creating a new PAW book…
May 7, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Calculations
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics offers more than one way to add calculations to your data? The great thing about using Planning Analytics within Excel is that you can add additional calculations to your data set to help you further analyze…
April 30, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Your Favorite TM1 Features Did Not Go Away
This is a guest blog post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. TM1 customers worldwide are upgrading and migrating to IBM Planning Analytics. Regardless of where you are in your upgrade or migration process, there’s a very important point you should know: you will…
April 29, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Cell Comments
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace allows you to add comments to your data set? During both planning and reporting cycles, many clients often ask how they can add comments into their data set. After all, the goal of a Planning…
April 23, 2019
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
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…