Quick Tips – Utilising Named Levels within IBM Planning Analytics
In any good IBM Planning Analytics application; User Experience is the key. In this video, we show a quick and easy way to make any application more understandable to your end-users.
By default Planning Analytics Workspace and Planning Analytics for Excel present dimensions broken out by numbered levels, where possible you can (and should) swap those numbers for a name that users will understand e.g. Product, Brand, Country, or Continent.
This is the first in a series of “Quick Tips” videos that are intended to showcase easy to implement ideas that can improve any application.
Declan Rodger
Declan is an IBM Champion for Data & AI, he is the Technical Director for Spitfire Analytics. Excited to share his experiences with IBM Planning Analytics and can often be found writing technical articles.
Working with Spitfire Analytics has resulted in the Finance Team becoming an integral part of the business. We are now able to provide analysis and strategic advice on the future direction of the business, rather than spending our time poring over endless spreadsheets.
- Lee Boyle, Finance Director (Engineering), NG Bailey
