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Planning Analytics Model Explorer is a tool that helps quickly and visually get an idea of the structure and state of a model, identify potential problem areas, and optimize some of the routines that Analysts and Modelers often face in IBM Planning Analytics.

For Modelers and Analysts:

• Conduct a quick audit of a new or legacy model and build a visual lineage between cubes and other system elements;

• Find potential problem areas and bottlenecks among model objects;

• Quickly retrieve data that may not be very convenient to obtain using standard IBM Planning Analytics (Cognos TM1) tools, for example: which cubes use one or another dimension, cubes sparsity, etc.;

• Get quick visual information about security settings (for example, who has access to the selected cube and access level, or, conversely, which cubes the selected user has access to);

• Identify the top cubes with the longest recalculation time (re-feed);

• Receive visualized information about the size of cubes and their components, as well as changes in the amount of memory used over time.

For managers:

• Monitor data about user activity during the working day on the dashboard;

• Get a list of inactive accounts in order to optimize user licenses;

For users:

• Get a visual representation of the model functional map;

• 2. Evaluate source data necessary to generate the final reports of the model;

• Search for changes in the Model by the new values and view data change in the transaction log using suitable aliases using;

• Determine the Processes that change the data in the target cubes;

Project page.

The source code for the tool is now available in the GitHub repository. The link can be found on the project page in the previous post.