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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: How to Set Up Synchronizations in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

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Revelwood’s latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video features Dillon Rossman, a consultant with our IBM Planning Analytics practice, demonstrating how to set up synchronizations in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW).

In this video, Dillon walks you through how to:

  • Change an exploration to a pie chart
  • Edit the synchronization properties
  • Select the dimensions you want to be synchronized
  • Perform synchronizations on both a sheet and a book

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Filtering in Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Global Settings in Overview

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Color in Planning Analytics

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Excel SEQUENCE

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Have you ever needed to quickly generate a list of numbers? Maybe you need to create a list from 1-100. Maybe you want to create a list of the first 100 even numbers. Maybe you want to create those same lists in descending order. Did you know that Excel has a function called SEQUENCE which allows you to quickly create these lists?

The SEQUENCE function is used to generate an array of sequential numbers.  The syntax of the function is:

=SEQUENCE (rows, [columns], [start], [step])

  • Rows (required)
    • This is the number of rows to be filled
  • Columns (optional)
    • This is the number of columns to be filled
    • If skipped, this defaults to 1
  • Start (optional)
    • This is the starting number in the sequence
    • If skipped, this defaults to 1
  • Step (optional)
    • This is the increment for each subsequent value
    • If skipped, this defaults to 1
    • This can be negative to provide a descending list

The following example shows a single column list from 1-10

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The same formula doubles the result when the column parameter is defined. Note that the results read from right to left (e.g., the entire row) and then goes down.

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Here is the same formula when adding both a starting value and an increment.

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Not only can this formula be used to quickly generate lists, but it can also be used as part of a combination:

  • With the DATE formula to define a calendar
  • With the TIME formula to create a daily schedule
  • With data from another column to create unique IDs for items like products or employees

Read more IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Creating Control Objects from the Modeling Workbench

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts in PAW Models

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Customizing Background Colors for Data and Header Cells

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Go To Line in Process

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Sometimes your TurboIntegrator scripts can become very long. While it’s nice to be able to scroll up and down throughout your code, there are times that you may want to go directly to a specific line. IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 79 allows this via the “Go to Line” button.

Once clicked, you are prompted to select a section and a line within the section.  

When defining a line, note that the line numbers restart within each section. In the example below, each set of generated statement lines begin at line 2 (since I like to skip a line for easy reading) and the first line of code in the Data section begins at line 5.

This approach will help you speed up your navigation as you write code in TurboIntegrator.

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace Borders in Preview

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: MDX Syntax Explained

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Workspace Borders in Preview

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IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to easily create selector widgets that can be used for updating the data in your PAW book. This is done by adding a dimension as a selector widget.

You can edit the list of elements (e.g., the set) and the way the list appears. The selector widget allows you to easily select an element that is synchronized to your charts and explorations. When selecting the element, a border appears around the widget.

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While this border offers features such as the ability to expand the screen, it clearly makes the list into a separate section of the page. You can remove the border by using the property called “Show selected border in preview” (within the area called General, Appearance). Here is the same list without the border enabled:

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This property will allow you to create the perception of a single page and not a set of independent objects.

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

Read more IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips &Tricks: Rounded Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: MDX Syntax Explained

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Global Settings in Overview Area of Exploration

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips &Tricks: Rounded Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace

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IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to easily create buttons that can be used for navigation and to run TurboIntegrator (TI) scripts. This is done by dragging the Action Button widget onto the sheet.

By default, the button appears as a rectangle.  

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You can make the button more rounded by using the property called “Corner Radius” (within the area called General, Appearance).  Here is the same button with a corner radius setting of 90:

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You can also update the height of the button to make it appear even more rounded:

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From there, you can further customize the formatting associated with colors, fonts, and text size.

This property will allow you to define various ways to incorporate simple “press this button to…” approaches within your PAW books.

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Working with Two Time Zones in Google Calendar

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: MDX Syntax Explained

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MDX enables you to query dimensions and cubes, lists of elements, data points, calculations, and more. 

The first step in learning MDX is to understand the syntax. Below is an example of an MDX expression that returns all elements of the product dimension sorted in ascending order. To understand the expression, we’ve color-coded the syntax below. 

Part1, the part that is associated with the TM1 structure and model, is in green. This defines cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, elements and more. 

Part 2, in blue, is the MDX Function.

Part 3 is in red. These are known as curly brackets or braces. These convert the results of the MDX Expression into a set. 

The Expression below lets you list all elements of the product dimension and sort the list in ascending order:

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Revelwood recently hosted a webinar on How to Use MDX in your IBM Planning Analytics Environment. Watch the recording to learn more about using MDX.

Interested in learning more about MDX? We have another MDX-specific webinar on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 1pm ET. Attendees will learn advanced MDX functions and see real-life examples of how Revelwood used MDX to address complex reporting requirements and to solve client challenges. 

Have a question about MDX? Register for our upcoming webinar or reach out to us at info@revelwood.com

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

Read more IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks on MDX:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: An Approach to Strengthening your MDX Skills

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Making Default Cube Views Dynamic with MDX

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Dynamic Subsets Based on a Cube

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Global Settings in Overview Area of Exploration

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Do you know how to define your global settings in the overview area of an IBM Planning Analytics Exploration? Revelwood’s FP&A Technology Director, Lee Lazarow, demonstrates how to manage and define these settings. 

Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn:

  • Locate the gear icon in the overview area of your Exploration
  • Identify the four different global settings you can define
    • Hierarchy name – shows details about each dimension
    • Iconography – gives details about each one of the dimensions, similar to the legacy version of Subset Editor
    • Context information – provides details about the database, which database it is references, which cube it is referencing
    • Section headers – shows within the area what is the context, or what was previously called titles or picks.

When you define your global settings in IBM Planning Analytics, you create a better experience for your end users. It enables end users to determine what they are looking at and what they are navigating through.

Revelwood has worked with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 for more than 27 years. We’ve partnered with hundreds of companies on the design, development, maintenance and updates of IBM Planning Analytics applications, across every industry. Have a challenge with Planning Analytics / TM1? We can help you!

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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Add Color to Multidimensional PAW Charts

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts in PAW Models

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IBM Planning Analytics with Watson Named Value Index Leader by Ventana Research

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Ventana Research has named IBM Planning Analytics with Watson a Value Index Leader in the firm’s Business Planning Value Index: 2022 Vendor and Product Assessment. The firm evaluated IBM Planning Analytics with Watson, along with planning products from Anaplan, Board International, Infor, insightsoftware, OneStream Software, Oracle, Planful (formerly Host Analytics), Prophix, SAP, Unit4, Vena Solutions, Wolters Kluwer and Workday.

IBM was categorized as an Exemplary Vendor, ranking first overall in the Value Index. Additional rankings by IBM Planning Analytics include:

  • Ranking second in Product Experience
  • Ranking Second in Customer Experience
  • Named as a Value Index Leader in TCO/ROI
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The purpose of the report is to “evaluate the maturity of software vendors and products and their value for enterprise use in business planning.” It is designed to provide a “balanced perspective of vendors and products that is rooted in an understanding of business drivers and needs.” Ventana uses research-based analytics and methodology to generate the Value Index ratings. The firm then “builds to a set of indicators it presents in both analytic and graphic form, each depicting the value of a specific vendor’s offering in terms of what it can deliver relevant to business planning needs.”

According to Ventana, “Technology is essential to making planning and budgeting more strategic, more strategic, more productive and more consequential to an organization’s success.”

Download your complimentary report!

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Join The Best IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 Consulting Firm!

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Do you love working with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1? Do you thrive on solving complex business problems? Do you enjoy working with a top-notch team? Then you should apply to work at Revelwood!

Who We’re Looking For

Revelwood is hiring full-time consultants to join our IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 systems implementation team. We’re looking for team leaders who understand the financial planning and reporting process and demonstrate effective self-management. Previous experience with IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 is required.

Our IBM Planning Analytics Practice

We are fully committed to our IBM Planning Analytics practice and invest in our team members to be 100% certified on the technology. Our team members become experts in the latest versions of IBM Planning Analytics while also mastering all aspects of the TM1 legacy tool. We enable our team to develop a knowledge base of best practices and to work with a wide range of companies. You’ll learn how different companies approach budgeting, planning, reporting and analytics while developing friendly relationships with our clients. 

What would you be doing at Revelwood? Some recent examples of the work our team has done includes:

  • Creating a complex allocation model for a healthcare / insurance organization
  • Helping a technology leader in the design and manufacturing of trucks update a system that enables them to analyze different engine types
  • Simplifying the overall planning and reporting process for a financial services firm
  • Redesigning a model to accommodate a new chart of accounts structure for a medical technology company

Finding the right career opportunity is not just about what you’ll be doing – it’s also about who you’ll be working with …

Why Revelwood

Revelwood is an award-winning, Gold Business Partner of IBM. We’ve worked with TM1 for nearly 30 years, building best practices across all industries. We speak business first, delivering best-in-class solutions for the Office of Finance. In addition to IBM, we partner with Workday Adaptive Planning, BlackLine and Fluence Technologies.

Revelwood is a team of passionate problem solvers and trusted partners. We embrace our core values:

  • Be passionate
  • It’s about the team
  • Do the right thing
  • Take pride in your work
  • Take initiative
  • We care

Most importantly, our team members enjoy working at Revelwood. Here’s what some of them have to say:

“Revelwood has the best culture of any company I’ve ever worked at. The degree of honesty, openness and genuine caring by management and colleagues is bar none.” – Ken DiSessa, account executive

“Every once in a while, you come across a company where teamwork comes totally naturally. No one has to work at it, there is just total confidence in the abilities of each team member, knowing that not one person is out for themselves and it’s all about the team.” – Chris Sherman, senior business development associate

Come join a team where we will celebrate your knowledge, celebrate your victories, and provide a fun but focused working environment. 

Learn more and apply today!

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