TM1 Web has been one of the main alternative user interfaces to Excel for planning and forecasting applications even since the release as early as back in 1997. This old friend has allowed business users to deploy web applications that can be easily created in spreadsheets.
There have been considerable improvements to the TM1 server in recent years and one of the hot topics that the new Planning Analytics is bringing to the table is the “true” Hierarchies.
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is a web-based interface for IBM Cognos TM1. It brings new exciting possibilities in terms of visualization of your TM1 data. IBM succeeded in expanding the TM1 interface options with a user-friendly and attractive experience aimed at a wide user community.
When using multiple IBM Planning Analytics instances with the same credentials in your Canvas application, you will now be able to authenticate to all your instances by entering the credentials only once.
A new API has been added that will allow a consultant or developer to send REST API calls directly into TM1 while leveraging on Canvas session handling. These REST API calls can be called through /api/rest