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IBM Planning Analytics Newsletter - July 2020

By Robert VAUTOUR posted Tue July 28, 2020 07:37 AM

  
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News
The new IBM Accelerator Catalog has been drawing a lot of attention! The Accelerator Catalog is a learning and ideation space for maximizing your investment in IBM Analytics solutions. Find templates and samples of custom visualizations, best practice guides, industry use cases, schematics, workforce planning models, and even in-product interactive experiences to experience how you can use our products in a variety of industries, departments, and roles to quickly and accurately get to the answers you need.

See what's coming next in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.54. One exciting new feature is the ability to save a view to the TM1 database - "Save to Server."

Planning Analytics Workspace update 54 fix list is available for review.

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel update 54 fix list is available for review.

Planning Analytics version 2.0.9.1 has addressed multiple security vulnerabilities. It also has a number of issues corrected. The fix list is available for review.

IBM Planning Analytics On Demand was released at the end of May, 2020. Designed to be easy to purchase (with a credit card) and help those who wish to migrate from spreadsheets to a modern cloud solution.

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Events

Webinar: Ask Me Anything about IBM Planning Analytics hosted by Offering Management. Aug 13

Webinar: Vision Hospitality along with QueBIT will showcase their journey from managing financial and operational data with spreadsheets, to operating on a Planning Analytics environment where they built a customized financial reporting and property performance model along with automating the distribution of reports. Aug 13

User Conference: Don't miss Cubewise's TM1 Horizon 2020, a 24-hour Planning Analytics knowledge sharing event with content in 12 languages.
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Events
 
Our first virtual Community Day was a great success! The event held on May 19 included 10+ Planning Analytics and Cognos sessions from roadmaps to client stories and product enhancements. All sessions are now available on demand through mid-August. 
 
Cloud Corner

IBM will begin to capture metrics of your usage of IBM Planning Analytics Workspace on cloud to improve the product, and its capabilities, with the release of 2.0.54. If you are based in the European Union, you will see a cookies prompt the first time you log on after the deployment of Planning Analytics Workspace on cloud. To see more information about the levels of cookies, click View Cookie Preferences.

Did you know that multiple gateway clients can connect to a single gateway by starting them using the same gateway ID? The connection to these clients is load balanced by using round robin to prevent a single point of failure in the connections. If one client goes down, you'll still be able to connect to the on-premises resource through another client that is still connected. But if you see that your Secure Gateway fails every 2nd connection attempt, this technote may help.


Did you know you can use your Identity Provider (Okta, ADFS for example) to log into your Planning Analytics via SAML 2.0? Review IBMid Enterprise Federation Adoption Guide and ask Support to walk you through the process.

NOTE: If you're already federated, you may have received an email recently from IBMid Federation team to apply a new Service Provider Metadata file. Please reply to that email for further instructions by July 17, 2020 to ensure there's no disruption of user login.
  
Tech Corner

Rules vs. TurboIntegrator: which should I use? Ann-Grete Tan from QueBIT highlights some general guidelines for building model calculations with Planning Analytics.


Are you unable to expand/collapse on TM1RPTRow in a Dynamic Report? Does it show the mail to icon instead? Find out how to resolve this issue.

PMsquare breaks down the Planning Analytics Configuration file. They explain not only how it's setup and maintained but also lists all the different types of parameters. It's important to understand the functionality of each parameter.
   
Users Wanted!
Ever wondered how we design and prioritize features in Planning Analytics? We listen to our users  through the User Experience Program.

Participate in monthly user research sessions, surveys, and design thinking workshops. Preview early concept designs and help shape the future of our products.

Upcoming topics include: AI forecasting, Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel, and updated Planning Analytics Workspace icons.

Interested? Join the IBM User Experience Program today.
 
On-premises Corner

Ever wondered how to Encrypt Passwords in Planning Analytics Websphere Liberty Application Server.xml file? See the technote to find out.

If you want to get some hands-on experience with Planning Analytics, access the Planning Analytics free trial. Uncover the truth hidden in your data with Cognos Analytics free trial. These trials are 30-days and free with no download required.

This technote will show you how to configure TM1Web Application server to allow SSL LDAP when using KERBEROS Authentication.

Are you new to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace? Before you begin your Planning Analytics Workspace installation, please review this FAQ.

As of version 2.0.53, IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Distributed for Planning Analytics Workspace Local now supports Red Hat OpenShift deployment. For details, see Install on OpenShift
 
Recommended Resources

Spitfire Analytics provides quick tips on utilizing named levels within IBM Planning Analytics.

See how to use IBM Planning Analytics with AutoAI and Python to automate your budgeting and forecasting.

See what's new in the Set Editor  within Planning Analytics Workspace since version 2.0.52.
 
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