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Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Achieving Finance Transformation
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, explaining four essential steps for transformation success. Making the Move to F&A Digital Transformation For controllers, CFOs, CTOs, and business leaders in general, planning a move to digital finance transformation can be…
May 26, 2022

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Correctly Sum Rounded Numbers in Excel
Almost everyone has created Excel reports that round numbers to the thousands or millions. With such reports there are sometimes situations where the displayed total does not match the displayed components. We can see the revenue sums correctly when looking at the natural…
May 25, 2022

Facing an IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 Talent Shortage?
There’s plenty of news about “The Great Resignation” or the talent shortage/war. In some cases, the challenge is not in finding someone, but in finding the right skills. This is particularly true for companies searching for people with IBM Planning Analytics /…
May 25, 2022

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace Visualization Axis
Did you know you are able to create custom axis labels for IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) visualizations? Below is a column visualization that shows periods on the x-axis and a net income amount on the y-axis. As you can see, a generic…
May 24, 2022

Introducing DataMaestro, the Data Orchestration Platform for IBM Planning Analytics / TM1
We’ve just released a new product designed to make the lives of IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 systems administrators’ easier. DataMaestro is a solution for managing and moving data that saves Planning Analytics / TM1 users significant time and money by making…
May 23, 2022

Workday Adaptive Planning Insights
Aged to Perfection: The Whiskey Model for Workday Adaptive Planning
This is a guest blog post from Christopher Howard, senior channel manager at Workday Adaptive Planning. It is the second in a series on purpose-built models for Workday Adaptive Planning. As you kick back this weekend and pour a couple fingers of your favorite all American adult…
May 20, 2022

Optimize your Business Processes for Planning, Reporting and Analysis
When was the last time you examined – and optimized – your planning processes? Have you made adjustments over the last few years to accommodate changing office habits, work from home environments and mergers and acquisitions? If your business is like most,…
May 20, 2022

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel’s XMATCH Function
Have you ever wanted to search a list and define the position where it appears in the list? Maybe you want to know how many sales reps exceeded their quota or want to define how many products cost more than an approved purchase…
May 17, 2022

Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Easier Intercompany Transactions
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, explaining five ways to make intercompany transactions easier and avoid the mess at month-end closing. Table of contents What Are Intercompany Transactions?1. Identify the Type of Transaction and Set up a Standard Process to…