If you are still using TM1 10.2.2 (or an older version), there are a lot of compelling reasons to upgrade to IBM Planning Analytics (TM1 11).
Here are the top 5 reasons to upgrade now:
1. New TM1Web
- Improved user interface and experience
- Improved support for Excel visualizations
- Faster loading and scrolling
- LDAP SSO authentication
- iPad-friendly
2. Planning Analytics for Excel
- New and improved Excel add-in
- WAN-optimized (no more Citrix!)
- New reports and functionality, including copying and pasting data directly into Planning Analytics using Quick Reports or Explorations (in-spreadsheet cube viewer)
- Reporting with hierarchies
- Support for Excel macros
3. Planning Analytics Workspace
- Free-form canvas dashboard design
- Combine cube views, interactive visualizations, websheets, images, videos, text, and navigation buttons
- Browser and iPad-friendly
- User-defined calculations on the fly
- Development, administration, analysis and reporting all in one place!
4. Hierarchies
- Turn attributes into virtual dimensions
- More efficient cube design
- Faster cube processing
- Show different views of a single dimension on multiple axes (e.g. Product by Brand)
- More easily analyze changes in dimension structure over time (e.g. company re-organizations, changes to chart of accounts)
5. Server Improvements
- Loads up to 4x faster
- Multi-threading improvements
- Support for Windows 10, Office 2016, MS Edge & Safari
- Continuous delivery methodology from IBM
- Updates to REST API (e.g. rule tracing)
Contact QueBIT today to learn more about upgrading to the latest and greatest that IBM has to offer – Planning Analytics!
