The much awaited major release of Workspace is out now. The new version Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.57 is available for download for on premise installs. Cloud version will follow in Mid October. Planning Analytics Workspace was released on 11th December 2015. This new look and feel and the features like workflow, AI forecasting, the rich visualisations and virtual dimensions + the features TM1 was born with - the write back, On the fly Consolidations and excel integration will now take TM1 to the next level... TM1 is putting the final nail in the coffin for its competitors!
Here is a bit more detailed look at the new release
The PA Workspace user interface has received a significant update and brings it closer to Cognos Analytics. This is how the home page now looks. This is customised for your role within PA Workspace and allows quick access to your applications, plans, favorites and recent items. Your view of homepage is dependent on your access level.
This gives us workflow functionality with an option to set up due date and submission for each asset. (Asset can be a book, view or websheets). Many of us have been waiting for this feature to be released to allow overlaying workflow mechanism over budgeting and planning models.
This page has been redesigned to provide a greater insight into your environment and to simplify access to Admin tasks. The Administration page now includes several task-specific tiles. The Databases tile provide quick insight into the health of your databases. The Users and Groups tile lets you know how many users are assigned to each role and the number of groups that are defined.
Planning Analytics is now embedded with AI/Predictive forecasting capabilities. This would make automated forecasting or guided forecasting a breeze.. You can forecast in Planning Analytics Workspace by using automated tools that model time-dependent data. Automated model selection and tuning makes forecasting easy to use, even if you are not familiar with time series modeling.
Forecasts and their confidence bounds are displayed in visualizations as a continuation of historic data. You can also view the statistical details for generated models if you want to see the technical background.
Specifying time series in forecasts often requires data manipulation. Planning Analytics Workspace supports a wide range of time series without the need for manipulation, ranging from standard date and time types, to nested periodic and cyclical time fields. When data is recognized as a time series, data preparation is automated. Appropriate trend and seasonal periods are detected, and models are selected from a set of nine different model types.
You can forecast in line, bar, and column visualizations. Forecasts and confidence bounds are computed for each time series, and displayed in the visualization as extensions of the current data. You can inspect each time series separately, and tailor the forecast and results to your own data and requirements.
All objects in a book, such as explorations, visualizations, buttons, images, and text, can now be precisely managed using an expanded selection of properties.
When you select an object in a book and then click the Properties tab, you'll see an expanded list of properties that you can set to manage the object in your book. The properties available vary by object type, and the properties you're familiar with are still available, but new properties allow you to precisely manage the size, position, alignment, and appearance of all objects in a book. You can also set Dashboard properties to manage the general appearance of your book.
The list of visualizations available in Planning Analytics Workspace has been expanded to include twenty five options. Note that Waterfall Chart is now available.
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Do note that this update has just been released and we have not fully tested it yet. However the release notes
These features are not supported in the initial new experience Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.57 SC release. Support for these features may be reintroduced in subsequent releases.
Source : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/