FP&A Done Right: Five Tips for Budgeting in the Age of COVID
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, written by Gary Cokins. Cokins explains why traditional budgeting is not a fit for the volatility, complexity and uncertain times businesses face today. The pandemic is causing boards of directors…
November 13, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Trimming Picklists
Did you know that IBM Planning Analytics includes a feature that helps trim the list of choices in a picklist as you type? There are many different ways to create picklists in TM1/Planning Analytics and Revelwood has previously written about creating picklist…
November 26, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: New Excel Feature – XLOOKUP
Did you know Excel has a new feature called XLOOKUP? For those of you who read these blogs regularly, you know that much of the focus is placed on IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks. However, I periodically also like to pass…
October 29, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Learn how to use Snap Commands in IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics has a feature, snap commands, that simplifies various routine tasks. In our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, Revelwood’s FP&A Technical Director, Lee Lazarow demonstrates how snap commands in Planning Analytics allow you to change computer jargon…
October 22, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The New Set Editor
IBM Planning Analytics contains a new set editor that makes it easy to manipulate the elements in a subset. This approach allows you to quickly add a single element, add a group of elements, or replace an existing set of elements. Once…
October 15, 2019
Understanding PVUs
“A Processor Value Unit (PVU) is a unit of measure used to differentiate licensing of software on distributed processor technologies (defined by Processor Vendor, Brand, Type and Model Number). IBM continues to define a processor, for purposes of PVU-based licensing, to be…
October 3, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Cell Level Security Defaults
Did you know that you can have TM1 / Planning Analytics security always use your cell security definitions … even when the security definition cell is blank? Values in a cell security cube override all other security. But if an intersection in…
October 1, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
New Video Series: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Every Tuesday we publish written blog posts sharing IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks from our PSG team. Today, we’re adding to our tips & tricks with a series of videos! Watch this short video from FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, to…
September 24, 2019
Alternatives to Traditional Budgeting
Now that we have spent some time discussing several problems with traditional budgeting, let’s look at some alternate approaches. Here is a review of the first three problems from my prior blog: Time Consuming and CostlyQuickly Irrelevant and OutdatedFinancial Process Largely Disconnected…