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IBM TM1 Tips & Tricks: When to Build Multiple Cubes
When working with clients to design a TM1 system, I sometimes have clients ask about an approach of building one cube for a model vs. building multiple cubes for a model. What do I mean by that? A cube consists of a…
July 31, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Upgrading from TM1
Did you know the window of time for upgrading from TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics is shortening quickly? You need to upgrade to IBM Planning Analytics in order to complete your 2019 budgeting and planning activities. While that is likely the biggest…
July 24, 2018
What They Don’t Teach You in College
Every summer Revelwood hires 2-4 college interns to join its ranks for 10 weeks of immersive experience in the world of business and technology. Our internship positions have ranged from technical to marketing to sales to general business research. What’s critical to…
July 17, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Cleaning Up Your TM1 Environment
Did you know there are some simple steps you can take to clean up your TM1 environment? A quick clean up gives you easier navigations for ad-hoc analysis, as well as smaller dimensions. In today’s world, memory is cheap. Hard drives that…
July 17, 2018
Excel Users Embrace IBM Planning Analytics
Microsoft Excel is the tool CFOs and finance professionals love to hate. The problem is often a result of trying to use Excel for complex financial planning and analysis. Excel is simply the wrong tool for that job. In fact, a BARC…
July 16, 2018
Nucleus Research Finds IBM’s Corporate Performance Management Solutions Focus on Personal Functionality and Usability
Nucleus Research’s “CPM Technology Value Matrix 2017” named IBM a leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions and found that “recent changes to its CPM products focus both on personal functionality and usability, empowering a greater diversity of individual users with more…
July 11, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Year-to-Date Hierarchies
Did you know you can create a single hierarchy that contains all year-to-date values within an entire year? As you know, TM1 is a consolidation tool which is designed to sum together a series of values. There are many ways to create…
July 10, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Three Reserved Local Variables in TurboIntegrator
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Jay Apwah. Did you know that there are reserved local variables that you can use in TurboIntegrator scripts? Reserved local variables are variables that do not need to be defined and are destroyed when the…
July 3, 2018
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: TM1 Web Writeback Protection
This is a guest post from Revelwood's Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can prevent data entry to TM1 in TM1 Web websheets? Here are a couple of different ways to do this. The first approach can be used for input…