IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Series Did you know IBM Planning Analytics offers more than one way to add calculations to your data? The great thing about using Planning Analytics within Excel is that you can add additional calculations to your data set to help you further analyze your data. Did you know that you can also do this within PAW explorations? Use the following steps to create a new calculation: Select one or more elements within your exploration. … Read More

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Series Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace allows you to add comments to your data set? During both planning and reporting cycles, many clients often ask how they can add comments into their data set. After all, the goal of a Planning Analytics database is to have a single source of data … both numeric and text. Planning Analytics Workspace allows you to insert comments into your explorations quickly and easily. Step 1: … Read More

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Series This is a guest post from Revelwood’s Shane Bethea. Did you know that you can quickly and easily create a new time dimension in the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Dimension editor? The following steps will automatically create a time dimension with a standard hierarchy and pre-populated set of attributes in a matter of seconds. To create your time dimension using the PAW Dimension editor, simply right click Dimensions in the left hand navigation … Read More

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Series This is a guest post from Revelwood’s Nina Gordy Did you know there are several benefits to using hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics? Hierarchies are one of the additional features available in Planning Analytics. The main benefit of hierarchies is that they enable users to see alternative data rollups in the same view. There are several reasons to take advantage of this new approach to interacting with your data. Hierarchies can improve query … Read More