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IBM Planning Analytics Newsletter - August 2020

By Robert VAUTOUR posted Tue August 11, 2020 05:55 PM

  
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The Business Application Research Center (BARC) names IBM a 2020 market leader in integrated Planning & Analytics, with products including: IBM Planning Analytics powered by TM1, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Watson Studio, and IBM SPSS.

Once again, IBM received top ranks in its five peer groups in the Business Application Research Center's The Planning Survey 20. 

IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.9.2 is now available for cloud deployments. To schedule an upgrade to this release please log a support case

IBM Planning Analytics Local 2.0.9.2 is also available for download on Fix Central.

As of 2.0.9.2 release of IBM Planning Analytics, TM1 Web is no longer included in the long cadence release. It will now have its own installation kit as of 2.0.55 release.

The deployment of Planning Analytics Workspace version 2.0.55 will begin overnight on Tuesday, August 11. See what's coming. Also you can view the defect corrections here.

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 see how you can use our products in a variety of industries, departments, and roles to quickly and accurately get to the answers you need.

Find questions & answers with Microsoft Office 365 support for IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel or TM1 Perspectives.

With IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel version 2.0.55, you can now define whether or not the converted report uses Microsoft Excel's stylesheet formatting

Events

Webinar: Data and AI Virtual Forum is focused on helping you trust your data and AI outcomes. Register now for our September Virtual Forum. Sep 16
And if you missed the July 29th Data and AI Virtual Forum, you can catch the replay.
 
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. 

Webinar: Ask Me Anything about IBM Planning Analytics hosted by Offering Management. Aug 13 and Sep 10

Virtual Training Course: Join LPA Planning Analytics Workspace Developer course. You will learn to administer and develop within your Planning Analytics environment as well as how to publish rich visualizations and modify content. Sep 21

Webinar: Building your Planning and Analytics reports. Understand the options available. Join our Offering Management as they provide tips and tricks on how to create professional looking reports to meet your needs. Aug 12
 
Tech Corner

Don't forget to make use of our RunProcess function. This was implemented in the product last year and it allows you to run TurboIntegrator processes in parallel, each on its own thread that is managed by TM1 Server.

Did you know that the )async directory in TM1 Planning Analytics server is related to the REST API ASYNC tasks? Review the article for more details.

Cubewise shows how to troubleshoot feeders in TM1 with Emojis. This technique is not only a good teaching aid to explain feeders but also a good health check tool giving developers quicker detection of under and overfeeding.


Revelwood shares their Tips & Tricks with action buttons in IBM Planning Analytics. Action buttons are a great utility that allow users to recalculate a sheet, navigate to another location, or even to run a TurboIntegrator process.
  
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.
   
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On-premises Corner

TM1 Web is now being delivered in its own installation kit. Review the changes to TM1 Web Deployment for Planning Analytics local with release 2.0.55.

In the databases tab of the Planning Analytics Workspace administration page, if you get the error  "Agent unreachable" displayed at the top, and the error "Cannot display resource information" displayed for each monitored TM1 Server database then this article may help to resolve.

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. 
 
Recommended Resources

Continue your IBM Cloud Pak for Data Learning Journey. We are pleased to announce the release of our two newest Cloud Pak for Data eLearning offerings!

See how L'Oreal has leveraged IBM Planning Analytics as a key strategic tool used by their worldwide finance teams for financial planning and reporting.

Learn about the strategic Workforce Planning with IBM Planning Analytics by our very own Nigel Sutton. This demonstration covers an example of both strategic and operational planning.

Declan Rodger of Spitfire Analytics shows how we can utilize MDX subsets and views to improve User Experience in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace and Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel.
 
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