It has been an interesting last month of slow but steady improvement in my TM1 / Planning Analytics journey and soon I'll be off to to teach a small team about how to use Planning Analytics + WorkSpace (PAW). It should be interesting considering I am relatively new with the product and now have been tasked to teach others how to use it! I’m not too worried about it however, last week I spent sometime with the client and Martin; who's taught me that I can handle myself under those situations, especially with the knowledge he has given me and what I've learnt about the product. I think the ...

As a TM1 consultant, one of our challenging tasks is improving performance. Often dynamic subsets cause memory leakage and in turn affect performance. Let’s discuss, how to convert dynamic subset to static subset with an example. For Example, the “account1” dimension in SData instance has dynamic subset called “All Members”. Any operation done in the dynamic subset like delete/insert, will make subset has static. The below snippet of code to covert the dynamic subset to static (TI process can be downloaded in the bottom of the blog). Before running the above code After running the above code ...

Good bye 2017! We're about to set our new year resolutions, and ready to jump into 2018! Not without some hard earned rest though. Next year like every year though undoubtedly you'll come across the same problems as this year, and maybe a couple of new ones but it's this guide that I hope you read and come back to because when I've done so it has helped me. So.... In 2018, your 8 steps to SUCCESS will be 1) Get things done The first step as a manager or developer that you need to deploy is embodying a culture of accomplishment, which will help you as success leads to success. Next year let's ...

Loss vs Gain? As we know – one thing that is constant is change and in the technology the change is always for the advancement from current and improvising the existing features. IBM has made significant changes to its Financial Performance Management product and has rebranded TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics. Rebranding TM1 to Planning Analytics does not mean you are going to lose existing tools like Architect, TM1Web, Perspective, Performance modular, Insight etc. IBM has enhanced the existing tools and improvised them. Few among many are listed below. The Cognos TM1 Web UX is totally ...