IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Simplifying Dimension Maintenance
Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn how to simplify dimension maintenance in Planning Analytics. Once you master these easy techniques, you’ll be able to do all of your dimension maintenance from the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)…
November 19, 2019
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAx Control Objects
IBM Planning Analytics uses cubes to store metadata information such as security and attribute information. These automatically generated cubes are called control cubes (which I sometimes call “squiggle cubes”) and begin with a prefix of a right curly brace. Server Explorer used…
November 12, 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 Costly Quickly Irrelevant and Outdated Financial Process…