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26 Aug 20

Driving down Risk in User Acceptance Testing

A practical guide to navigating UAT Reaching the point of User Acceptance Testing signals a major project milestone, but you risk derailing your success almost instantly unless you proactively manage your testing strategy well in advance. Embarking on a journey of a collaborative approach to communication between the client and consultants throughout the lifecycle of […]

25 Jun 20

What’s New in IBM Planning Analytics – Version 2.0.52

What’s Covered Updates to the Set Editor (Workspace and PA for Excel) Maximize the Set Editor (Workspace and PA for Excel) Scrolling Improved Drag and Drop Procedure (Workspace and PA for Excel) Easy Access to Functions (Workspace and PA for Excel) Configure Default View Settings for Available Members and Current Set Panes (Workspace and PA […]

17 Jun 20

Introducing Project Management Consultants

By James Field, Project Management Consultant, PMsquare At PMsquare we excel in ‘Simplifying Data Complexity’ by delivering the right solution for the right business problem. That extends into our unique approach to PMO as part of our consulting service. Each project includes an assigned Project Management Consultant (PMC) to ensure successful delivery. PMO as a […]

16 Jun 20

Price Volume Mix analysis in TM1

By Yuri Kudryavcev, Principal Consultant, Cornerstone Performance Management I was just reading through Price Volume Mix analysis IBM Accelerator template and it would have been be so useful for me about 5 years back when I had to create our own template for a pharmaceutical model. Here’s some of my ramblings about it. What is Price Volume […]

11 Jun 20

Part two: Case studies for past global crises

By Rod Hozack, Partner, Oliver Wight his is part two of a two part blog series, read Part One Planning for the unpredictable – five lessons learned here. I have been working with global organisations for a long time, helping them to improve their business processes. And over the years, there have been local or global […]

02 Jun 20

Part one: Planning for the unpredictable – five lessons learned

By Rod Hozack, Partner, Oliver Wight Companies can survive major, unpredictable events such as financial or economic crises, or pandemics like COVID-19, if they are prepared. However, many companies live in the here and now, and spend their time managing the current environment, rather than running what-if analysis and contingency planning that would allow them […]

01 Jun 20

TM1 Cell Security

Had a few ‘let’s improve performance’ cases recently that were all related to TM1 Cell Security, so here’s a couple of notes on it. You’ve heard all of this before, just putting it together. Self-referencing cell security rule Planning Analytics Workspace has a feature (or a bug, depending on your point of view) that it […]

08 May 20

Why doing nothing about your cash flow during COVID 19 is hardly an option

By Marcus Dietrich, Associate Consultant at PMsquare The bottom line is that every organisation is impacted by COVID-19. Some of you may know how your business is being affected. For others, the impact may not have been felt, yet or are uncertain about how your business is being affected. However, the fact is that the […]

30 Apr 20

TM1 at Scale

By Yuri Kudryavcev, Associate Consultant at PMsquare I recently had a chance to work on a very large TM1 system and one of my colleagues asked ‘so what can we learn from it?’ This question got me thinking a bit past the usual ‘just don’t do this’ banter and lead to this post. I think […]

21 Apr 20

Being useful at a time of pandemic

By Steve Bows, Anaplan Practice Lead Like most people at the moment, I have been living in a strange limbo where life has gone very quiet, projects have been put on hold, and we all hold our breath and wait for the predicted avalanche of COVID-19 cases to overwhelm our hospitals. For those of us […]

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