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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Fixing Repetitive Scripts
This post is the latest post in our new blog series: How We Solve Problems. Each blog post focuses on a real-world client experience where Revelwood was presented with a unique or thorny problem. We’ll explain our approach to how we solved…
May 28, 2024

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Border Lines
The great thing about explorations is that data appears in a simple grid-like format. This allows you to easily look at your data in an easy-to-read format that is similar to an Excel spreadsheet. In the example below, it’s easy for your…
May 21, 2024

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: How to Filter Data for Sage Intacct Integrations within Adaptive Staging Tables
There are many times when importing data into the staging tables for Sage Intacct integrations that I am looking for just a subset of data and not all the data. Importing everything takes time, and if you filter your retrieval in the…
May 15, 2024

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How We Solve Problems
This post is the first post in our new blog series: How We Solve Problems. Each blog post focuses on a real-world client experience where Revelwood was presented with a unique or thorny problem. We’ll explain our approach to how we solved…
May 14, 2024

Accounting and Accounts Receivable
Is the Accounting Cycle a Trade-off Between a Fast Close and Accuracy?
This guest blog post from our partner, BlackLine, discusses why a quick financial close is not always better. With the quickening pace of the modern finance and accounting (F&A) landscape, the mandate often seems to be "faster, faster, faster." One area where…
May 9, 2024

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Identifying a Specific Dimension
Have you ever wanted to change (or delete) a dimension, but first wanted to know how this action will impact your model? IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to quickly identify all the cubes in a database that include a specific…
May 7, 2024

Solving Financial Reporting Challenges
This is a blog post from our partner Workday, highlighting common financial reporting challenges and explaining how to solve them. Stakeholders want self-service: Reporting runs the gamut, from presenting department managers with data on how their actuals compare to budget, to showing…
May 3, 2024

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Asymmetrical Expand in PAW
Have you ever been in a situation where you have stacked dimensions in your view and only want to expand one section of it? In legacy Perspectives, an expansion of one area equates to an expansion of all areas. IBM Planning Analytics…
April 30, 2024

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Greenbar
Have you ever generated an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) exploration and struggled to read the values in the grid? For example, how easy is it to define the travel cost for department 55 in the screenshot below? A few years ago,…