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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…
May 23, 2023
FP&A Done Right: Trends in Accounting and Finance
This is a blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. Philippa Lawrence, chief accounting officer and vice president at Workday, highlights some interesting trends emerging in finance and accounting. The past few years have given us a deep appreciation for how…
May 19, 2023
Financial Close & Consolidation
Making Work Meaningful for Finance & Accounting
This is a guest post from Christine Peart, CFO of Fluence Technologies, a partner of Revelwood, defining a future-ready finance workforce. A few months ago, an article in the Wall Street Journal documented a troubling trend for finance; accountants are beating a…
May 18, 2023
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Popular Posts, Part 1
Revelwood’s IBM Planning Analytics team covers a wide range of topics in their weekly IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks posts. We’ve decided to share some of the most popular posts over the past 12 months. IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks:…
May 16, 2023
Leveraging IBM Planning Analytics for xP&A
This is a guest post from our partner IBM. In this post, Michael McGeein, program director and product management leader – IBM Planning Analytics, showcases how organizations use IBM Planning Analytics for Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A). Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A),…