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FP&A Done Right: Beware of Budgeting
“Not to beat around the bush, but the budgeting process at most companies has to be the most ineffective practice in management. It sucks the energy, time, fun, and big dreams out of an organization. It hides opportunity and stunts growth. It…
July 26, 2019
Learn how to use Planning in Adaptive Insights for Finance
The third short demo video in our recently announced series, The Capabilities of Adaptive Insights, focuses on the Sheets feature in Adaptive Insights. Sheets are used as templates to enter data into for planning purposes. This demo video will give you a…
July 25, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Rule Concepts that are often Forgotten
Did you know that rules are used in TM1 to perform live calculations without the need for any manual intervention or on-demand scripts? This is a very powerful aspect of Planning Analytics and, when used properly, increase the value of the tool…
July 23, 2019
Learn how to Create Reports in Adaptive Insights
HTML reports are the “bread and butter” of the finance professional. We’ve created a short demo video of how to easily create reports in Adaptive Insights. In this video, part of our series The Capabilities of Adaptive Insights, Ken DiSessa shows you…
July 17, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Manipulate Case Used for Text
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics rules can be used to manipulate the case used for text? There are rules to change values into both uppercase and lowercase. UPPER Converts an entire string to upper case UPPER(‘Lee Lazarow wrote this’) becomes LEE…
July 16, 2019
The Importance of Including FP&A Early and Often in Your Strategic Planning Process
The Strategic Planning process at many companies is in sore need of an overhaul. As many of you know, the "Strat Plan" can take on a life of its own. It was not too long ago that I was the guy who…
July 12, 2019
Revelwood Launches “The Capabilities of Adaptive Insights” Video Demo Series
We’ve exciting news for those who follow our award-winning Adaptive Insights practice. This week we’re launching a new four-part YouTube series, The Capabilities of Adaptive Insights. In these short videos Revelwood’s Ken DiSessa walks you through how quickly and easily you can…
July 11, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Ways to Stop a TI Process
Did you know there are two different ways to stop a TurboIntegrator script? The ProcessBreak command stops processing source data and proceeds directly to the Epilog. This approach allows you still run code in the Epilog that can perform tasks such as…
July 9, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Ways to Skip a Record Using a TI Process
Did you know there are two different ways to skip specific records when you are running TurboIntegrator scripts? ItemSkip is used to skip a specific record. This is often nested within an IF statement and used when you want to simply ignore…