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IBM Cognos TM1

Webinar: How to Reforecast Effectively & Quickly in Uncertain Times

April 3, 2020 by Lisa Minneci Leave a Comment

News & Events

These are uncertain times. All but essential businesses in many parts of the U.S. are now working from home. Retail establishments have closed. Manufacturing plants are being re-worked to adapt from making car parts and sneakers to manufacturing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Some industries are booming. Some are busting. And most just don’t know what the future holds.

Unfortunately, from a financial standpoint or an operational standpoint, you can’t ignore the changes that are happening to your business. The question is: how easily can you adjust your forecast to reflect these changes?

Join us on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 4pm EDT for a live webinar on agile forecasting. Lee Lazarow, our FP&A Technology Director, will present examples of how our clients use IBM Planning Analytics for forecasting and what-if scenario planning. You’ll hear how:

  • A retailer/manufacturer used a percent approach to adjust numbers while dealing with a shut down in production
  • A financial services company, which uses driver-based planning, updated their plan by changing their starting assumptions
  • A medical not-for-profit created a new high-level, driver-based model to reflect decreased donations of supplies and money

Whether you are looking for a better planning solution, or if you are already an IBM Planning Analytics client, you will learn something from this webinar. Our goal is for you to come away with an understanding of different approaches for more nimble and efficient planning.

Register today!

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Filed Under: News & Events Tagged With: Analytics, Budgeting, Budgeting Planning & Forecasting, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, Planning & Forecasting, Planning & Reporting, planning analytics webinar, reforecasting, Revelwood, scenario planning, TM1, what-if planning, what-if scenarios

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Multi-Level Dimensions

March 31, 2020 by Lisa Minneci Leave a Comment

Video

In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to create multi-level dimensions in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). This new feature allows you to build brand-new dimensions by simply dragging a file onto your screen.

Watch the video and you’ll learn:

  • How to take a multi-level file of cities and states in Notepad and drag it into PAW
  • How the leaf-level elements will be the specific cities
  • How the parent-level will be the states
  • How that rolls up to a grand total called Tri-State

From there, you then learn:

  • How to create a dimension
  • Name your dimension
  • How Planning Analytics has built-in logic to understand the levels of your file

This is just one of many new useful features in Planning Analytics.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters!

Want to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks delivered to your inbox every Tuesday? Sign up to get our weekly email of just the week’s tip! And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Planning Analytics videos.

Watch more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks videos:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Hold Feature

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Using Words Instead of Numbers

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: How to Reorder TM1 Cubes in Planning Analytics

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Filed Under: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks, Videos Tagged With: Analytics, Budgeting, Budgeting Planning & Forecasting, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, Planning & Forecasting, Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks, planning analytics tips & tricks video, Planning Analytics video, Planning Analytics Workspace, Revelwood, TM1

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Server Recycle

March 24, 2020 by Lee Lazarow Leave a Comment

Tips & Tricks

In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings much of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface.  This blog post explains how to do server recycle through the new interface.

Planning Analytics offers the ability to stop and/or restart your server and access logs within your system. These steps are done within the administration screen.

To access the administration screen, click on the Administration option at the top right corner of your screen (note that this will only appear if you have Admin permissions).

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Server Recycle

Once inside the administration portal, select the option for Databases.

IBM Planning Analytics Tricks: Admin Server Recycle

You will see all your servers at the bottom left corner of your screen. Each server box will define information such as the current memory usage and the current CPU usage.

IBM Planning Analytics Tips: Admin Server Recycle

The bottom of the box will give you the ability to stop or restart your server and the three dots at the top of the box will give you access to various logs.

This approach within Planning Analytics allows server administration to be performed by PA administrators without the need to learn operating system techniques or to perform file navigation steps.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters! You can also sign up to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks sent directly to your inbox!

Read more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The New Planning Analytics Admin Approach

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Critical Alerts

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Filed Under: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Tagged With: Analytics, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, lee lazarow, Planning Analytics admin, Revelwood, TM1

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Hold Feature

March 17, 2020 by Lee Lazarow Leave a Comment

Videos

Today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video focuses on the new hold feature in Planning Analytics. Watch the video and you’ll see our Director of FP&A Technology, Lee Lazarow, demonstrate how to use the hold feature, which gives you the ability to do full top-down spreading or partial spreading.

In this video Lee will show you how to do top-down planning in Planning Analytics. He walks you through the simple scenario of decreasing all expenses by 10%. He also shows you how to set a fixed expense, but then also decrease your other expenses.

This is just one of many new useful features in Planning Analytics.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters!

Want to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks delivered to your inbox every Tuesday? Sign up to get our weekly email of just the week’s tip! And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Planning Analytics videos.

Watch more Planning Analytics video tutorials:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Using Words Instead of Numbers

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: How to Reorder TM1 Cubes in Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Filtering in Planning Analytics

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Filed Under: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks, Videos Tagged With: Analytics, Budgeting, Budgeting Planning & Forecasting, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, lee lazarow, Planning & Forecasting, Planning & Reporting, TM1

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Critical Alerts

March 10, 2020 by Lee Lazarow Leave a Comment

Tips & Tricks

In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings a great deal of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface. One of the tasks you can do in this interface is to create and define email alerts.

In an earlier Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks blog post, I discussed the ability to define admin alerts. One of the alerts is associated with a critical database health. But what does “critical” mean? Planning Analytics allows you to define that yourself within the administration screen.

To access the administration screen, click on the Administration option at the top right corner of your screen (note that this will only appear if you have Admin permissions).

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Critical Alerts

Once inside the administration portal, select the option for Databases, Configuration.

How to use admin critical alerts in Planning Analytics

Within the configuration settings window you can then select Threshold and expand the Database usage section.

What are Planning Analytics admin critical alerts

This screen allows you to define traffic lighting for green, yellow and red status of both your CPU usage and your Memory usage. The results of these settings are used on the main database screen (the colors associated with the server box) and in the alerts section (notifications for critical database health).

This approach within Planning Analytics allows your system administrator to have quick and automated ways to monitor your server status.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters! Or, sign up to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks delivered directly to your inbox!

Read more IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Administration

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The New Planning Analytics Admin Approach

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Filed Under: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized Tagged With: Analytics, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, TM1

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Using Words Instead of Numbers

March 3, 2020 by Lisa Minneci Leave a Comment

Video

In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how you can use words to input data in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) instead of numbers. In the old TM1-world, you had the ability to put numbers into your system as part of your normal planning approach. Now, you can use words. Let’s explain …

Watch our Planning Analytics video and you’ll learn how to:

  • Enter words such as 2k to indicate 2,000
  • Enter 2.5K for 2,500
  • Use the “greater than” sign to spread values into other cells and reconsolidate them
  • Have Planning Analytics Workspace do the math for you by typing in common phrases such as “add 100” or “increase by 10%”

This approach gives you a great deal of flexibility when using PAW. You can use your number keypad, your standard keyboard, or even voice commands to enter data into Planning Analytics.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters!

Want to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks delivered to your inbox every Tuesday? Sign up to get our weekly email of just the week’s tip! And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Planning Analytics videos.

Watch more Planning Analytics video tutorials:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Reordering TM1 Cubes

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Filtering in Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: Creating Buttons in Planning Analytics

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Filed Under: IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks, Videos Tagged With: Analytics, Budgeting, Budgeting Planning & Forecasting, Financial Performance Management, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics, Planning & Forecasting, Planning & Reporting, planning analytics tips & tricks video, Planning Analytics video, TM1

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts

February 25, 2020 by Lee Lazarow Leave a Comment

Tips & Tricks

In your existing TM1 world, much of the administration is done via your computer’s operating system. Planning Analytics brings much of the administration into your environment via a web-based interface.  One of the tasks you can do in this interface is to create and define email alerts.

Planning Analytics offers the ability to notify you about aspects of your server such as “Alert me when memory usage on the machine exceeds 50%”.  This is done within the administration screen.

To access the administration screen, click on the Administration option at the top right corner of your screen (note that this will only appear if you have Admin permissions).

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Admin Alerts

Once inside the administration portal, select the option for Databases, Configuration.

IBM Planning Analytics Tips: Admin Alerts

Within the configuration settings window you can then select Alerts, expand the Databases section, and select a database.

IBM Planning Analytics Tricks: Admin Alerts

Once selected, you will have a series of options such as memory usage and thread information. Each option offers threshold definitions and an option to send a notification. The bottom of the screen defines the email addresses that will be used when notifications are sent.

This approach within Planning Analytics allows system administration to be performed by PA administrators without the need to learn operating system techniques or advanced coding methods.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters! You can also sign up to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks sent directly to your inbox!

Learn more IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks to make your admin tasks easier!

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: The New Planning Analytics Admin Approach

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Simplifying Dimension Maintenance

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Administration

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What’s the Total Economic Impact of IBM Planning Analytics?

February 24, 2020 by Lisa Minneci Leave a Comment

News & Events

When potential clients are evaluating IBM Planning Analytics as a budgeting, planning and reporting solution, they often ask us for its ROI. It’s not a simple question to answer. Every organization’s business situation, and needs are unique to them. The corresponding implementation is as well. As a result, there’s really no universal ROI for any given software solution.

A Forrester report helps provides some related information for businesses looking at Planning Analytics. IBM and Forrester recently came out with The Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Planning Analytics. The analyst firm used its Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework and methodology for the report, which serves “to provide a complete picture of the total economic impact of purchase decisions.” The findings are based on interviews with four customers with significant experience with IBM Planning Analytics, and with IBM executive and Forrester analysts.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM Planning Analytics

Based on the report, the total economic impact of Planning Analytics include:

  • 63% less time spent to complete the annual budgeting cycle
  • 80% faster processing planning data
  • 70% fewer labor hours required to complete forecasting cycles

Learn more about the key findings in the report and the benefits of Planning Analytics.

Read additional analyst reports that cover IBM Planning Analytics:

Revelwood Partners Adaptive Insights and IBM Earn High Ratings in BPM Partners’ BPM Pulse Survey

Excel Users Embrace IBM Planning Analytics

Independent Survey Ranks IBM Planning Analytics Against Competing Products

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Reorder TM1 Cubes in Planning Analytics Workspace

February 18, 2020 by Lisa Minneci Leave a Comment

Videos

In today’s IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video, our PF&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates a new feature in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 2.0.44, that enables you to reorder TM1 cubes. Your TM1 cubes were likely designed for a specific reason. Over the course of years, the data has been changed and added to. TM1 would let you optimize the system by reordering the dimensions and re-indexing the database.

Watch this Planning Analytics video to see how this new feature lets you optimize your cubes by reordering them. When you reorder your cubes, PAW gives you information about the optimization, including if there will be an increase or decrease in performance, and what the impact on RAM will be.

IBM Planning Analytics, which TM1 is the engine for, is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters!

Want to get our Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks delivered to your inbox every Tuesday? Sign up to get our weekly email of just the week’s tip! And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Planning Analytics videos.

Watch more Planning Analytics video tutorials:

Filtering in Planning Analytics

Creating Buttons in Planning Analytics

Planning Analytics Admin

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