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New Task Pane APIs in IBM Planning Analytics for Excel

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 saved sets for the active database. It also provides controls for opening alternate data... Read More

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User Adaptive Public Subsets in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

One of the key requirements to create a user friendly business application in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is to be able to customize the selection / view of individual IBM PAW forms to specific users. Although IBM PAW provides some... Read More

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IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Release SC57

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 integrated forecast prediction algorithms, guided planning... Read More

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

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 customers. Users are looking for flexibility in authoring presentation content as... Read More

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Best Practices for IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) Integration

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 that make the integration reasonably straight forward... Read More

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Integrated Budgeting for Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

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 increase the accuracy of the budget and forecast via... Read More

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

IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX) gives users four different report types to choose from depending on the type of report or analysis they would like to create. Some of the report types are new and represent a change from the former Perspectives... Read More

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

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 meetings with IBM executives, we felt a renewed buzz... Read More

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IBM Planning Analytics Version 46 - Key Release Updates

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 IBM PAX (Excel) and the system overall. Key highlights... Read More