
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Choose the Correct TIME Syntax
Are you familiar with all the TIME syntax in Workday Adaptive Planning? Do you know what is the best practice for each of them? This blog post will tell you the difference between them. Below are the most common TIME syntax in…
June 22, 2022

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Chart Multicolors
One of the visualizations in Planning Analytics is a column chart. This type of chart is a good way to compare items since all the lines are in proportion to each other. An easy way to create a column chart is to…
June 14, 2022

Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Revenue Cohort Modeling
Do you know about cohort modeling in Workday Adaptive Planning? A cohort model provides meaningful insight of data grouped into subsets based on any characteristic important to the company. The groups are called “cohorts.” Cohorts can be based on time (i.e. season,…
June 8, 2022

FP&A Done Right: Is Your Planning Process Hindering Decision Making?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining how and why you should foster a culture of planning. Long planning cycles. Short-lived plans. Siloed efforts. Hard-to-find errors. And never enough time for strategic analyses. Do these FP&A…
June 18, 2021

FP&A Done Right: Collaborate More When Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, recommending how to get other departments to collaborate with the Office of Finance. When it comes to business, collaboration is vital. After all, no single department can do its…
March 12, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Forecasting – Setting up the Forecast
This is part three in a three-part series on IBM Planning Analytics' new feature, Forecasting. In our previous blog about IBM Planning Analytics' new Forecasting feature, we reviewed the steps required to preview your forecast. Once previewed, you can then run your…
March 9, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Forecasting – Previewing the Forecast
This is part two of a three-part series on IBM Planning Analytics new Forecasting feature. In our first blog about Planning Analytics' new Forecasting feature, we reviewed the steps required to configure your forecast. Once configured, you can then preview your forecast…
March 2, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Planning Analytics Forecasting – Configuring the Time Dimension
The new IBM Planning Analytics Forecasting feature allows you to quickly populate future time periods based on past data values. This feature is especially useful to prepopulate a data set for you or your team to then adjust as you see fit.…
February 16, 2021

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Dimension Attribute Types
Did you know that IBM Planning Analytics dimensions can have defined types and that these defined types are necessary for certain Planning Analytics features to operate correctly? For example, the new predictive forecasting functionality within Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) requires the use…