IBM TM1, Agentic AI & Finance Transformation Insights

In this blog, let me explain you about one of the hidden/unused feature from IBM Cognos TM1. Before we start, let me ask you a question - Have you ever come across below requirements or related issues while working with TM1? Urgent requirement - Management needs new consolidation within a Canned report to meet their business needs. An Ad hoc requirement from business to get new consolidation member at the earliest. An alternative roll-up request from the Boss - for a better analysis using existing data. Stakeholders request to have additional consolidations which may be part of ad hoc ...

For starters, God's algorithm is a notion originating in discussions of ways to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle, but which can also be applied to other combinatorial puzzles and mathematical games. It refers to any algorithm which produces a solution having the fewest possible moves, the idea being that an omniscient being would know an optimal step from any given configuration (source wiki). With the constant barrage of messaging these days, almost pushing you over to adopt cloud, does the choice between “To Move” or “Not To” almost feel like cracking the “God’s Algorithm”? Well, hopefully by ...

This blog will cover an information regarding moving the data between cubes using Rules and Feeders. Questions to be asked before we get started with the topic... Why do we need to move the data to another cube which is having similar dimension structure….?? Can’t we just modify the existing cube….?? Answers “we can modify the cube” and “there is no need to create a duplicate cube “, although there can be a few exceptions like dependent cube(s) which might have been used to create report which sometimes a client may request not to modify. Ideally the data can be moved between cubes using TI ...

One of the major challenges of promoting code to successive instances is packaging the code for promotion and finding a slot for downtime. Not to mention the sequence of steps required to carry out the procedures and to communicate to one and all about the impending downtime. Adding to this difficulty is finding downtime when users are accessing the application from across the globe.So irrespective of deployment size, either major or minor, the deployment process is never going to be easy. However you can potentially overcome this using one of the TM1 Suite tools. To achieve this the ...

In this weeks blog, our team make it our duty to shine some light on right tool your company can choose to meet your business needs. We will cover the much discussed benefits of installing and using IBM's Planning Analytics workspace on Windows 2016. Contents What is PA and PAW PAW and Windows 2016 Benefits on PAW on Windows 2016 What is PA and PAW? Planning Analytics ("PA") is the next version, or can be considered as the next generation of TM1. IBM enhanced TM1 functionality and features and embraced new tools to its' suite. This new enhanced TM1 has been rebranded as PA. IBMs PA has the ...

As business implements more and more technology to streamline their operations the benefits of saving time, minimising costs, increasing productivity and better accuracy are starting to be realised. This means this is hardly a trend that will fade anytime soon. If you or your business are not 'there yet' it’s better to catch up now rather than being left behind with the rest of the competition. We've moved on from the times when cloud technology was an unknown territory for especially for Accounting and Finance but the industry players are now fully aware, prepared or in cloud. This leaves us ...

The last week have been great in that I have been grinding away at our Planning Analytics + Workspace work and preparing myself for workshops and presentations. I am happy with how it is progressing in terms of content and the approach that we are taking. Working from home for majority of the last week has been a saving grace too. The extra 2 hours I get that isn’t wasted in commute into the office is a gift. The transition from office environment back into the hibernation cave of home and actually being able to complete work productively I thought would be more of a challenge than I have ...

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 ...

IBM Planning Analytics Local is the new version of TM1 which was released by IBM in December 2016. IBM has rebranded TM1 to IBM Planning Analytics Local. Get used to using the name Planning Analytics instead of TM1 IBM Planning Analytics is a fast, easy, flexible and complete self-service planning and analytics solution, build on a modern cloud architecture, using as its core, a new generation of the proven TM1 in-memory calculation engine. IBM Planning Analytics is available both as an on premise and cloud based solution. Below is the list of features added to the new version of TM1 aka IBM ...