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The Future of Revelwood’s Toolkit and Dynamo!

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Last October, we held a webinar updating you on the future of the Revelwood Toolkit, including Dynamo!, in IBM’s new Planning Analytics environment. At that time there was significant uncertainty surrounding the future of IBM’s support for TM1 V10.2/10.2.2 and Perspectives and how that would affect our support of the toolkit. As you are aware, Dynamo! will not function in the new Planning Analytics environment when using PAx (Planning Analytics for Excel) as the interface.

As things have become clearer, we wanted to take this time to update you on some important information:

  1. IBM has formally announced the end of support for TM1 v10.2 as September 30, 2018. The end of support for v10.2.2 will be one year later, September 30, 2019.
  2. IBM has not announced an end of support for Perspectives and continues to include it as an interface option in the latest release of Planning Analytics.
  3. Revelwood intends to provide support for the Revelwood Toolkit and Dynamo! through the end of life of Perspectives in both TM1 v10.2/10.2.2 and Planning Analytics, in the 32 bit Excel 2013 and 2016 environments, to those clients that maintain their Revelwood Toolkit and Dynamo! software maintenance.

What does this mean? Good news!

As long as IBM continues support for Perspectives, clients are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Planning Analytics as both Perspectives and the Toolkit/Dynamo! will continue to work and be supported. Over time, as you gain familiarity with Planning Analytics, we can work with you to convert your reports to PAx, creating an easier transition.

As information becomes clearer regarding any planned end of life announcements for Perspectives, we will be sure to keep you informed.

Again, it will be critical to maintain your Revelwood Toolkit Maintenance and Dynamo! support agreements as any fixes or patches will only be distributed to those clients. In addition, as reports are converted to the new PAx environment, our Dynamo! Documenter Tool will be made available to you to significantly streamline that effort.

If you have any questions, or need help planning your upgrade to IBM Planning Analytics, please feel free to reach out to me at jprasisto@revelwood.com or 201.984.3025.

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Revelwood Labs – How We’re Adding Value to your Analytics Investment

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For over two decades, Revelwood has been offering leading edge, high value TM1 and Cognos Express products, solutions and services in the FPM marketplace. Up until a year ago, all of these offerings were managed under a single organization—Revelwood. Given the changing dynamics in the market, with a greater emphasis on self-service products and industry-specific solutions, Revelwood has restructured itself and launched a separate product division called Revelwood Labs. This allows us to put more focus, ownership and strategic emphasis on new products and solutions that meet our clients’ needs and those of the ever-expanding analytics market space.

This year, for example, we relaunched our former BPM Suite accelerator as an all new cloud-based solution (also offered on-premise) that leverages the best of Planning Analytics Workspace, TM1 Web, CAFÉ and Watson Analytics, yet still powered by the industry leading TM1 multidimensional database engine. Called Lightspeed, this solution helps our clients get up and running faster and smarter, with pre-built FP&A functionality and embedded best practices from hundreds of TM1 implementations over the years.

Also in 2016, we launched our first ever mobile app called Quantum. It’s designed to untether TM1 administrators from their desktops and allow them to access and manage their TM1 environments anytime, from anywhere. Quantum launched on the Android platform at IBM Vision back in May and comes out on the iOS platform for Apple devices next week. The iOS beta launch is by invitation only, so please contact us if you are interested. It’s incredibly convenient, easy to use and totally FREE!

More importantly, Revelwood Labs has developed a roadmap that will enable us to continue developing products and solutions that add significant value to our customers’ analytic agendas. Right now we are working on several industry solutions that incorporate the use of TM1, SPSS, Watson Analytics and other IBM analytic product offerings. We are also working on a next generation solution to Revelwood’s Performance Toolkit that incorporates the “best of” functionality from Dynamo!, Data Manager and Application Manager for the CAFÉ environment.

There is much to look forward to from Revelwood in the months and years to come. We are confident that the creation of Revelwood Labs will help us help you get more value and results from your IBM analytic investments.

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