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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,…
April 16, 2024
Accounting and Accounts Receivable
Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions Report
Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions includes our partner, BlackLine. According to Gartner, “Financial close and consolidation solutions support automation, compliance and collaboration within an organization’s group close, consolidation and reporting processes.” Market Overview This Gartner report…
April 12, 2024
The Promise of AI in Finance
This is a blog post from our partner Workday, explaining how CFOs can help bridge the AI trust gap. Potential enterprise uses of artificial intelligence and generative AI have garnered plenty of attention in recent months. AI is the next business game-changer,…
April 5, 2024
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips and Tricks: Excel’s ARRAYTOTEXT Function
Have you ever needed to export Excel data in a format that can be read by other systems? Although csv files are widely accepted, many legacy systems expect data in an array format. This can be done using the ARRAYTOTEXT formula in…