We’ve been using Planning Analytics for Excel in our environment for a while. We would like to consider using Slice instead of PAX to take advantage of some new features (like hierarchies in DBRWs) but would like some more information. We have a large range of users, so pushing new technology can be difficult and guaranteed to meet resistance. I downloaded Slice a while ago and tested out, but have some questions regarding compatibility existing PAfE features…
- Does Slice support Explorations and Quick Reports? I don’t see how to create either in the solution. I haven’t tried to work with and Exploration or Quick Report that was built originally in PAfE.
- Can Slice work alongside PAfE? Or do we need a method to switch from one to the other?
- Has anyone actually deployed Slice as a primary Excel interface for TM1 users?
I really do want the capabilities it offers for my users. However, we do have a range of users who do use explorations and quick reports. And I do like using the Arc/Slice cube viewer, but retraining them on the different format will be tricky…especially for those that also still use Workspace. And it doesn’t help if I can produce DBRW’s with hierarchies in Slice if they can’t consume them in PAfE.