ACG Business Analytics Blog

IBM CA On-Demand Now Available FREE for all IBM PA Cloud Customers

Posted by Kathleen Boswell on January 24, 2022

Effective October 2021, all IBM PA Cloud Customers will have access to the IBM Cognos Analytics on Demand offering at no additional cost. New IBM PA Cloud customers will have IBM CA on Demand ...

New Task Pane APIs in IBM Planning Analytics for Excel

Posted by Bryan Cave on June 2, 2021

The IBM® Task Pane is a key component in Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel that provides access to the list of cubes, saved views, dimension members and ...

User Adaptive Public Subsets in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Posted by Bryan Cave on February 7, 2021

One of the key requirements to create a user friendly business application in

Topics: IBM Planning Analytics, IBM PA Workspace

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Release SC57

Posted by Steve Beesley on October 5, 2020

The latest release of IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (Release SC57) offers an avalanche of new functionality & features: a game changer for those looking for improved visualizations, fully ...

Integration of IBM PA and IBM CA with Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)

Posted by Steve Moore on July 29, 2020

Being able to leverage content from an IBM Planning Analytics (IBM PA) or IBM Cognos Analytics (IBM CA) in a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation is a common requirement by ...

Topics: IBM Cognos, IBM Planning Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics

Best Practices for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) Integration

Posted by Matt Berson on February 6, 2020

Effective integration of IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) with the existing infrastructure is usually one of the top priorities of organizations looking to use TM1. TM1 has a set of embedded tools ...

Topics: IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics

Integrated Budgeting for Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

Posted by Rob Harag on January 27, 2020

The primary focus of budgeting and forecasting at a majority of companies is the Income Statement and associated KPIs (Revenue, EBITDA, Net Income). Significant investments are often made to ...

Topics: IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics

IBM PAX - The 4 Report Types and How to Use Them

Posted by Rob Harag on December 19, 2019

IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX) gives users four ...

Topics: IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics

The Future of IBM Planning Analytics - IBM Data and AI Forum Debrief

Posted by Peter Edwards on October 31, 2019

It was an exciting set of news and updates around IBM PA at the IBM Data and AI Conference in Miami last week. Through a variety of presentations by IBM Offering Management as well is in private ...

Topics: IBM Cognos TM1, IBM Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics Version 46 - Key Release Updates

Posted by Rob Harag on October 10, 2019

IBM Planning Analytics Version 46 will be released on October 15, 2019. The release includes a number of exciting enhancements to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace as well as fixes and updates to ...