IBM Planning Analytics v2.1.x: Analyze Data and Create Reports
- Course Code P8467G
- Duration 2 days
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This course is available in the following formats:
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Public Classroom
Traditional Classroom Learning
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Virtual Learning
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Course Overview
TopLearn how to explore, analyze, and report on data using IBM Planning Analytics Workspace and related clients.
This course teaches learners how to explore, analyze, and report on data using IBM Planning Analytics Workspace and related clients.
Participants learn core Planning Analytics concepts- such as models, cubes, dimensions, views, and sets- and apply them to create interactive reports, dashboards, and formatted outputs.
The course combines conceptual instruction with guided, hands-on exercises that allow learners to practice real-world tasks, including creating books and views, formatting reports, entering and spreading data, applying calculations and conditional formatting, working with sandboxes, publishing websheets, and exploring forecasting results.
These exercises reinforce best practices and help learners build confidence using Planning Analytics features in practical business scenarios.
The course reflects the current Planning Analytics Workspace v2.1.x environment while preserving content that remains valid from earlier v2.x releases.
The course emphasizes effective analysis, reporting, collaboration, and planning techniques that learners can immediately apply in their own Planning Analytics implementations.
Updated 28/6/2026
Virtual Learning
This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
TopThis course is destinated to Business Analysts.
Course Objectives
TopAfter completing this course, learners should be able to:
- Explain how models, cubes, dimensions, and views relate
- Control how data is displayed using view actions and snap commands
- Add summary and member calculations to views
- Understand refresh behavior and recalculation timing
- Work with websheets in books
- Build interactive dashboards with widgets and selectors
- Export and share Planning Analytics content
- Run and interpret AI forecasts responsibly
- Understand Decision Optimization integration at a high level
Course Content
TopUnit 1: Introduction and First Steps
- Explain how models, cubes, dimensions, and views relate
- Create and manage books
- Build and save views
- Identify and manage benched dimensions
- Create asymmetric views using targeted selecting
- Control how data is displayed using view actions and snap commands
Unit 2: Managing Views and Data
- Use static and dynamic sets effectively
- Add summary and member calculations to views
- Apply conditional formatting to highlight exceptions
- Enter and spread data correctly
- Interpret cell colors and data states
- Understand refresh behavior and recalculation timing
Unit 3: Formatting, Reports, and Dashboards
- Use sandboxes for safe experimentation
- Work with websheets in books
- Apply formatting best practices for reports
- Use visualizations to explore data
- Understand visualization limitations and requirements
Unit 4: Advanced Features
- Build interactive dashboards with widgets and selectors
- Configure synchronization correctly
- Create and interpret scorecards
- Export and share Planning Analytics content
- Understand Excel-based reporting options
Unit 5: Websheets, Forecasting, Applications and Plans, and Decision Optimization
- Publish and manage websheets
- Run and interpret AI forecasts responsibly
- Understand forecast quality indicators
- Work with applications and plans
- Understand Decision Optimization integration at a high level
Course Prerequisites
TopParticipants should have the following:
- A general understanding of business analytics or performance management concepts
- Basic familiarity with IBM Planning Analytics terminology
- Experience navigating web-based applications
Test Certification
Top- None
Follow on Courses
Top- IBM Planning Analytics v2.1.x: Design and Develop Models in Planning Analytics Workspace
Further Information
Top- This course has labs provided by IBM
- Official course book provided to participants