Apliqo UX 2.4 Webinar — check what’s new on this release

Apliqo UX is a modern, web based TM1 interface that can help you stop crunching numbers and start driving value for your business. As we released version 2.4 of Apliqo UX, on October 15th (Europe, US East Coast) and October 16th (Australia, PanAsia, US West Coast), join our free webinar and learn how you can: Make […]

Apliqo UX and Cubewise Canvas for TM1 to be offered as a single product

Apliqo UX and Canvas for TM1 have been combined to a single product which will be known as Apliqo UX. Future releases of Apliqo UX will contain all features and functionality of both products. Apliqo UX improves the adoption rate and user acceptance of any application built on IBM Planning Analytics. The user-friendly web interface combines guided […]

Apliqo Insights: Planning Analytics TM1 User Day in Ehningen, Germany

This year’s TM1 User Day, held at IBM’s German Headquarters in Ehningen, proved to be another huge success. Attracting over 400 participants, the event held strong with its motto “from users, for users,” uniting TM1 users and systems managers from a wide variety of industries. The event proved to be extra special for our team […]

Cubewise opens first branch in Germany

Cubewise opened a branch in Munich this month, consolidating its role as IBM Germany’s leading Platinum Partner. Markus Fynmore also joins Cubewise Germany as Practice Manager at the new Branch in Munich. Germany, with its large TM1 community, is an important market for Cubewise. For years, the Australian consulting and service provider has been active […]

Top-down & Bottom-up Planning

Despite its importance, planning processes within companies are often a source of dissatisfaction for the people involved. In this blog we explain how ‘Top-down & Bottom-up Planning’ can improve processes within your company and help keep your employees happy. Corporate planning is important.  It determines how company objectives will be met, how resources will be […]

Correctly identifying and applying KPIs to planning processes

The challenges posed by the planning process can be mastered by identifying and integrating the correct key performance indicators (KPIs) into driver-based planning. Our blog provides answers to the five most urgent questions about KPI Analytics. Why are many companies and decision-makers dissatisfied with their planning processes? Of course, there are many reasons. Management reporting […]

Last chance for corporate planning: Part 1

“Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it,” the business magazine wrote in 2001. The polarizing article generated an enormous reaction. However, little has changed since then. To this day, planning is perhaps the greatest challenge that companies face. In a two-part blog series, we reveal how companies can make their planning processes more […]

London FP&A Board meeting on the 15th March 2018

It is commonly agreed that the traditional budgeting process is time-consuming and costly, rarely focuses on strategy and adds little value. However, it is still so deeply embedded in the organisational planning processes that going “Beyond Budgeting” is not an option at this point in time. Can Zero-Based Budgeting be the first step towards flexible budgeting and planning process? The London FP&A […]

Apliqo inside: 5 Questions To Scott Wiltshire

What is your role at Apliqo and how does your work impact the development of Apliqo’s products? My role is Chief Technical Officer CTO. I’m responsible for our technology stack and making sure that we have the right product architecture so all the technologies can talk to each other and moreover that our developers all […]

What is wrong with budgeting and planning?

This is explained firstly by the business environment, which has become increasingly dynamic and complex over the past decade, so making planning and budgeting more challenging. Secondly, many decision-makers also stated that the quality of their planning outcomes is not good enough, with too little attention paid to strategic aspects in the planning process. What […]