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This course is designed to teach analysts how to use IBM Planning Analytics to analyze data to discover trends and exceptions, create and customize reports and templates, and contribute data to plans. Through a series of lectures and hands-on activities, you will learn how use Planning Analytics Workspace and Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel to create analyses, enter data, create custom views and dashboards, and build formatted reports and forms.

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What You'll Learn

  • Understanding models, cubes, dimensions, views and sets
  • Creating books and adding content 
  • Creating new sheets, saving, closing, and opening views
  • Move and filter dimensions 
  • Show different levels of detail 
  • Create an asymmetric view 
  • Display cells as percentages 
  • Displaying specific members by using sets 
  • Adding calculations to views 
  • Highlighting exceptions by using conditional formatting 
  • Entering data 
  • Experimenting with data by using sandboxes 
  • Working with spreadsheets online by using websheets 
  • Formatting for reporting 
  • Examine different visualizations and customize a visualization 
  • Examining performance by using scorecards
  • Exporting a view to Microsoft Excel
  • Examining report types 
  • Create reports easily by using Quick Reports 
  • Expanding and formatting members by using Dynamic Reports 
  • Examine the TM1 functions in a Dynamic Report
  • Creating Custom Reports 
  • Simplify tasks by using action buttons 
  • Creating websheets 

Who Should Attend

Analysts

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Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of your business requirements
  • Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Learning Journey

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1. Understanding IBM Planning Analytics data 

  • Understanding models 
  • Understanding cubes 
  • Understanding dimensions 
  • Understanding views 
  • Understanding sets

2. Creating books 

  • Creating books 
  • Adding content 
  • Creating new sheets
  • Saving, closing, and opening views

3. Creating and saving views

  • Compare two views of the same cube 
  • Create new views 
  • Save a view 

4. Changing the way data is displayed

  • Move and filter dimensions 
  • Show different levels of detail 
  • Create an asymmetric view 
  • Display cells as percentages 
  • Add top or bottom filters 
  • Show attributes for dimension members 

5. Displaying specific members by using sets

  • Display existing sets
  • Add, remove, and reorganize members in a set 
  • Find members by using searches and filters 
  • View attributes 
  • Save sets 
  • Edit a set

6. Adding calculations to views 

  • Add summary calculations 
  • Add member calculations 
  • Remove and rename calculations

7. Highlighting exceptions by using conditional formatting

  • Apply conditional formatting 
  • Add an additional condition

8. Entering data 

  • Distribute data to multiple cells by using data spreading 
  • Enter and hold data using quick commands 
  • Copy and paste and use calculations 
  • Add a comment to a cell 

9. Experimenting with data by using sandboxes

  • Creating sandboxes
  • Comparing sandboxes
  • Committing data and deleting sandboxes 

10. Working with spreadsheets online by using websheets 

  • Find and add websheets to your book
  • Explore websheets 

11. Formatting for reporting

  • Creating a new view 
  • Formatting the view for reporting 

12. Exploring data by using visualizations 

  • Examine different visualizations
  • Customize a visualization 

13. Creating dashboards

  • Adding and reusing objects
  • Synchronizing objects
  • Navigating the book and perform tasks by using buttons 
  • Changing the appearance of a view 
  • Hiding information
  • Proven Practices for Dashboards 

14. Examining performance by using scorecards

  • Reading scorecards 
  • Adding scorecards to a book

15. Exporting data

  • Exporting a view to Microsoft Excel

16. Introduction to IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel

  • Examining report types 

17. Exploring data in Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 

  • Connect to a system, and add an Exploration 
  • Display different dimension members 
  • Modify and save the view 

18. Create reports easily by using Quick Reports 

  • Convert an Exploration to a Quick Report
  • Drag a view to add a Quick Report 
  • Synchronize reports by using cell referencing 
  • Change members on rows or columns 
  • Add columns or rows and apply styles 
  • Apply custom formatting 

19. Expanding and formatting members by using Dynamic Reports

  • Create and explore a Dynamic Report 
  • Formatting the Dynamic Report 
  • Rebuild the Dynamic Report

20. Exploring TM1 functions 

  • Examine the TM1 functions in a Dynamic Report
  • Derive rows based on saved sets
  • Derive rows based on MDX 
  • Create custom format definitions 
  • Create custom columns 
  • Add new sections and multiple Dynamic Reports to a single sheet 

21. Creating Custom Reports

  • Create two custom reports 
  • Combine the two reports 

22. Entering Data in Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 

  • Entering data in cube viewer 
  • Entering data in Dynamic Reports 
  • Entering data in Explorations and Quick Reports 
  • Using Sandboxes to experiment with data 

23. Simplify tasks by using action buttons

  • Enable action buttons 
  • Add an action button to navigate to another worksheet 
  • Edit an action button 
  • Create an action button that rebuilds a worksheet 

24. Creating websheets 

  • Publish a websheet 
  • Manage websheets 
  • Add the websheet to a Planning Analytics Workspace book

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