Category: Pulse

  • How to measure TM1 user adoption

    How to measure TM1 user adoption

    User adoption is good way to evaluate the success of any application. You can build the most efficient application ever created but at the end of the day if users are not using it, it’s ROI is questionable.Typically, in most projects, only key users are involved during the design phase. While most business users will…

  • What is the Return on Investment of Pulse?

    What is the Return on Investment of Pulse?

    Pulse brings many new opportunities to those responsible for the administration and development of TM1 systems. Up until now what is actually happening within your TM1 servers has very much been a black-box. Pulse enables you to shine a light on your system and actually deliver better, faster and more maintainable system to your users.

  • Google for your TM1 model

    Google for your TM1 model

    Pulse is your friend. If there is something you’d like to know about your TM1 application such as, how a cube is updated, where an attribute is used or where a specific string is referenced, just ask Pulse.

  • Why PVU is important to TM1 performance

    Why PVU is important to TM1 performance

    Depending on your license agreement, when you buy TM1, it is likely that you buy a limit number of PVUs. Knowing how many CPU your TM1 server requires will help you to adjust the number of PVUs you really need.

  • What can you do if TM1 slows down

    What can you do if TM1 slows down

    In a previous article, I explained how Pulse can help you when Excel is hanging. Now we’re going to see how Pulse can help you when a user complains that TM1 slow down.

  • What can you do if Excel is hanging

    What can you do if Excel is hanging

    What can you do when your users are complaining that Excel or TM1 Web is hanging. How do you deal with this situation. Hopefully it does not happen often in the TM1 world but it can happen if:

  • Documentation a necessary evil

    Documentation a necessary evil

    Documentation is a long and costly task that is often ignored for more “interesting” tasks by developers and administrators alike. Pulse for TM1 automates much of this process by doing all of the tedious tasks for you. 

  • How to troubleshoot network issues

    When using the Pulse Web client, if you have the feeling that Pulse is running slow, it is likely that you have network issues. 

  • How to create the license optimisation report

    How to create the license optimisation report

    Pulse has specially designed report that gives you a summary of how the system is used by different types of users. This report gives you a full picture over any time-frame of how well utilized your licenses are. Users are categorized into Admin, Write and Read-Only roles and their usage mapped according to the amount…

  • What’s inside the dump file

    What’s inside the dump file

    A dump file is a zip file which contains history of data of the previous 10 min of your TM1 instance or TM1 server. You’ll find details of everything that happened in the previous 10 min before the dump file was created such as who was logged in, which processes or chores ran during the…