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Interview with Bobby Davidson

One of the challenges of scaling a large corporation is that the internal systems and structures get more and more complex over time, and the people working there loose the context of why those systems were set up in the way that they were. Every new leader comes in and bolts on internal processes that…
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Using N_CONNECT in Slice
N_CONNECT is a VBA function to create a connection with an IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instance. It can be used in a worksheet or VBA (via Application.Run)
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Unpacking the Benefits of Elasticsearch and Kibana in Pulse

Pulse 6 brings more flexibility and data capabilities to IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) administrators and developers of all kinds. We’ve been so excited to see how it is changing the way that our users interact with their organization’s data and in truth, there is so much more value to be unlocked as you start to…
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Using Grafana with Pulse for TM1

Pulse 6 comes with the open source version of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Elasticsearch is the search engine where Pulse stores the data and Kibana is the visualization tool powering the Pulse Explorer.
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Increasing the Pulse Web client session timeout
By default the Pulse Web client sessions timeout after 20 min of inactivity. To update the timeout value:
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Arc and Slice v3.2 are now available

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.
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Arc and Slice – Feature list by releases

This article gathers the most popular new features of Arc and Slice by releases.
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Building Active Forms with Hierarchies

IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) is always innovating on new concepts and features that can help developers and in v11 of the TM1 server, they introduced something called a hierarchy. The idea was that you could add a new level between a dimension and its various elements. One dimension could have multiple hierarchies within it and…
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Making Sense of Past Events with Pulse

As your financial system gets larger and more complex, you’re exposed to a wide range of users and will inevitably bump up against performance challenges that come along with the increased scope. No matter how much effort you put into creating highly efficient and optimized workflows and processes, you’re never going to escape user complaints such…
