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Cubewise EDU, the place to upskill your know-how on IBM Planning Analytics/TM1!
Next session will be conducted in July 2022 in the Australian and European time zone.
Spots are limited, so get in quick!
🌏 Australian Time Zone: 9:00am to 5:00pm AEST
🌏 European Time Zone: 8:00am to 4:00pm BST
July 12 – End User (PAW)
July 13 – Apliqo UX Fundamentals
July 14 – End User (Perspectives)
July 14 – End User (PA for Excel)
July 15 – Developer Fundamentals
July 19 – Pulse Fundamentals
July 20 – Advanced Rules
July 21 – Advanced TurboIntegrator
July 22 – Advanced Reporting (Perspectives)
July 22 – Advanced Reporting (PA for Excel)
July 26 – Advanced MDX
Email edu@cubewise.com for more information.

The TM1py Fundamentals online classroom is scheduled to commence on August 4.
May sessions in Australia and Europe sold out fast.
If you want to kickstart your knowledge using TM1py, enrol for the August session today!
📢 Classes will be held online.
📢 Class will run every quarter and commences on the first week of the month. Attend four 2-hour sessions over 4 consecutive weeks.
📢 Achieve a personalised digital badge that you can proudly share on LinkedIn by getting your knowledge endorsed.
📢 Monthly open forum scheduled after the course, for course members to engage with an expert on TM1py and go through any questions.
Reach out to edu@cubewise.com for more information.

Join our monthly open forum, exclusive to Power User members!
Your up-skilling does not have to end once you have completed a course.
Do you have any questions or need clarification on a course you have completed?
Join our monthly forum, hosted by Bryan Wan, Head of Cubewise EDU, to go through any questions you may have.
Tuesday, May 17 8:30am – 8:45am AEST (3:30pm PDT, 5:30pm CDT, 6:30pm EDT) and 8:00am – 8:15am BST (9:00am CEST, 10:00am MSK, 5:00pm AEST )
Not yet a Power User member? The Power User Plan has many benefits for end-users and developers, which includes access to ALL training courses and much more!

Insights on IBM Planning Analytics for Excel
Grouping Option
– Control how repeated elements on the row set appear in an Exploration or List. Because an element appears in each row for ‘Repeated labels’, this options works best if you want to do a lookup like an xlookup.
Default Setting = merged cells

The Horizon presentation of the month is 🥁🥁🥁 … 10 Tips for More Efficient Development using Arc, presented by Tim Ryan 🎉🎉🎉
Arc is the ultimate tool to make TM1 easier and quicker to master.
Key Takeaways:
– Arc can be used in Excel
– Create a new object using a template
– Set up a snippet to reuse code
– Insert variable placeholders in a snippet
– Shortcut keys like ALT+[Arrow Key] to flick between tab, CTRL+/ to toggle comments, CTRL+ALT+k to select all the strings
– Replicate the security from an existing user for a new user
– Impersonate a user to troubleshoot
– Create a text output with parameters and/or variables included
– Upload a file to the TM1 Server that can be used as the data source
– Pin tabs to keep them available all the time
Enjoy!

The sheer scope of IBM Planning Analytics/TM1 is enough to make anyone’s head spin.
But in all that complexity lies the untapped potential that you don’t even know you’re missing out on.
Read about Sheba Prakash’s experience with Cubewise EDU and how it opened doors that she never even thought to knock on.
Email edu@cubewise.com for more information.

2021 has been a hard year for business. But the plethora of financial and operational challenges companies faced this year also provided plenty of opportunities to reflect, learn, and grow
In the 2022 instalment of Jack’s masterclass series, we’ll take a bird’s eye view at some of the key learnings from our previous masterclasses, as well as the lessons we learned as we navigate the murky waters of FP&A post-COVID-19.
Planning and Analysis for Critical Value Drivers, Part 2: Asset Management, scheduled for June 9.
Register today!
📅 2022 FP&A Masterclass content calendar
– March 17: The Ultimate Value Drivers: Growth and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
– April 28: Planning and Analysis for Critical Value Drivers, Part 1: Growth and Profitability
– June 9: Planning and Analysis for Critical Value Drivers, Part 2: Asset Management
– July 21: Strategic Analysis and Planning
– September 1: The External View: Benchmarking Performance and Competitive analysis
– October 13: Developing Predictive and Analytical Models
Join the 6 module Masterclass presented by Jack Alexander

A new version of TM1py is now available to download from the TM1py project on GitHub.
Iterative JSON parsing:
The way TM1py retrieves values has been optimized using iterative JSON parsing. By using this technique, TM1py requires a significantly smaller memory footprint at an almost negligible cost of performance.
Skip non updateable cells:
This optional argument to the write/write_dataframe functions asks TM1py to filter out cells that can not be updated before attempting to write. If not used, TM1py will fail with an error when attempting to write to rule-derived or consolidated cells. This is very helpful, as it saves the TM1py user from verifying the validity of the cell updates when not working with flawless data sources.
Search:
New search functions have been added to each object.

A new version of Arc and Slice is now available to download. v3.2 includes a new Administration module to view all IBM Planning Analytics releases.
Release History
A new Administration module was added, it is called Release History. This new module will help TM1 developers to track new releases of TM1Web, IBM Planning Analytics Server (PA Server), PAfE & PAW:
– View the full history of releases.
– Filter the list by products and export it into Excel.
– Quickly find the release notes.

A new release of Pulse v6 is now available.
In addition to being able to monitor IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) SaaS instances, Pulse can now be installed on Linux and monitor TM1 instances running on a Linux server.
