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Financial Close & Consolidation
Are your Accountants Quitting?
This is a guest post from our partner BlackLine, examining the drivers behind the mass exodus in accounting roles. Like everything else in accounting, the numbers tell the story. The profession is experiencing a steep decline in qualified personnel, as many trained…
June 22, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Waterfall Charts
Did you miss our webinar on waterfall charts in IBM Planning Analytics? Here’s our take on best practices and how and why to use waterfall charts. Waterfall charts, also known as bridge charts, floating column charts, or cascade charts, are a data…
June 20, 2023

Financial Close & Consolidation
Intercompany Financial Management Benchmarks
This is a guest post from our partner BlackLine, highlighting some results from their recent survey, Intercompany Financial Management: Benchmarks, Challenges and Expectations For companies that transact intercompany business, intercompany operations have a big impact on the financial results. However, there are…
June 15, 2023

Revelwood Expands Best-in-Class Solution Portfolio to Include Incorta
We’re expanding our best-in-class solution portfolio to include Incorta’s open data delivery platform, giving our clients an analytics hub for the Office of Finance. Incorta’s technology simplifies the data ingestion and delivery approach, giving clients unrivaled data access to deliver fast, accurate…
June 14, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace (PAx) Zoom Bar
One of the strengths of OLAP tools like IBM Planning Analytics is that you can create data sets that stack multiple dimensions together. Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to easily convert those data sets into an easy-to-read visualization. Here is an…
June 13, 2023

Financial Close & Consolidation
Financial Consolidation Software Reduces Risk and Accelerates the Close
This is a guest post from Ventana Research, published by Fluence Technologies. It details how financial close and consolidation software can reduce risk and speed up the close process. The Importance of Time to Close An important measure of the effectiveness of…
June 8, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: HTTPPORTNUMBER
Did you know that when you create a new TM1 / IBM Planning Analytics instance that the HTTPPORTNUMBER parameter is required? This setting is placed within the TM1S.cfg file for your model. Some things to note when defining the HTTPPORTNUMBER parameter: 1.…
June 6, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Popular Posts, Part 2
Earlier this month we shared three of our most popular IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks blog posts. Since we publish these tips & tricks posts every Tuesday, we have plenty of tips you might have missed. Here are three more of…
May 30, 2023

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Set Editor Remove Duplicates
In a recent blog post, we explained how to use Excel to produce a list of unique values. But what if you wanted to do the same thing in your subset? IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 82 introduced an approach into…