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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…
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…