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FP&A Done Right: Beware of Budgeting – Part II
How is your budget/budget prep coming along? Have you set aside time to rethink your process? In that last installment of FP&A Done Right, we started our enumeration of the problems with traditional budgeting. Before I discuss several more, here is a…
August 9, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Revelwood Launches New Video Series – How to Create a Cube in IBM Planning Analytics
As part of our commitment to delivering educational resources to the IBM Planning Analytics community and the Office of Finance, we’ve just launched a new video demo series. Head over to our YouTube channel to watch the first of our three videos…
August 8, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Financial Rules
Did you know one of the great things about Excel is that there are many built-in functions that calculate values associated with specific industries? One of these industries is the financial industry where Excel is sometimes used to calculate values associated with…
August 6, 2019
Learn how to Update Microsoft Documents with Adaptive Insights Data
Did you know one of the most powerful features of Adaptive Insights is its ability to let you easily update the financial data in your Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents? Watch this short video, where Ken DiSessa demonstrates how easy this…
August 1, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: IFERROR
Did you know one of the great things about creating TM1 Web sheets is that you simply need to create an Excel sheet and then press a button called Publish? This will convert your Planning Analytics formulas into a web-based interface that…
July 30, 2019
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…