This document discusses iQue, a connector created by QueBIT Consulting that allows IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) to integrate with external data sources and applications via IBM Bluemix. The document outlines an agenda to discuss QueBIT, predictive demand planning using their Euclid engine, and how iQue can help improve TM1 forecast accuracy by connecting it to external predictive models and messaging services. A demo is shown of using iQue to send historical TM1 data to Euclid for predictive forecasting and loading the results back into TM1.

1. 1226A: iQue on IBM BlueMix
can increase your TM1
forecast accuracy
Michael Cowie
Dallas Crawford
QueBIT Consulting, LLC

2. Mike Cowie, Director of Strategic
Solutions, QueBIT
@Michael_D_Cowie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cowiemichael
mcowie@quebit.com
Dallas Crawford, Senior Sales Executive,
QueBIT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dallas-crawford-
mba-446a759
dcrawford@quebit.com
Presenting Today
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3. Agenda
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• About QueBIT
• What is iQue?
• What are predictive demand planning & Euclid?
• How to get started with predictive solutions & iQue
• Q & A

4. What you will learn today
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1. Learn about IBM BlueMix, web services and why we created the iQue
Connector
2. Learn how your forecasts can benefit from data science & predictive
demand planning
3. Learn about QueBIT’s Euclid engine and predictive solutions
4. Some demonstrations to show you what’s possible
5. QueBIT’s vision for the future:
• Integrating web services and other solutions with TM1
• Leveraging advanced analytics in TM1

5. Reach out to QueBIT at
Vision
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• On Twitter
• #askquebit or @QueBIT_TM1
• Expo hall:
• Booth #11
• More about iQue/sign up for beta: http://www.quebit.com/iQue
• Visit us on our IBM Vision 2017 page for more:
• http://quebit.com/who-we-are/resources/vision-2017/

6. About QueBIT
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7. • Focused on all things Analytics
• Analytics Consulting Services
• Project Implementations
• Staff Augmentation/Managed Services
• Software Reseller and Development Company
• 16 years in business with managers on the team who have been working in
analytics for 20+ years
• Operating Nationally in the United States of America
• 900+ successful implementations in finance, sales, marketing and operations (50+
new analytics implementations over the past 12 months)
• 400+ analytics customers; all industries
• 90 employees
• Development of Analytics Solutions such as Predictive Insurance Claims
Subrogation, Predictive Demand Planning and Predictive Assortment
Planning
• Delivering Analytics On-Premise and in The Cloud
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About QueBIT

8. Trusted Experts in
Analytics
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9. • 50+ Financial Analytics Projects a year
• Delivered with IBM Planning Analytics/TM1 on Premise or in the Cloud
• Financial Consolidations and Reporting
• Revenue and Expense Planning
• Operations and Workforce Planning
• Capital Planning
• Profitability Analytics
• Etc.
Financial & Operational
Performance Management
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10. • CloudWORQ: Pre-built TM1 solutions designed to integrate
with TM1 Cloud, based on proven QueBIT TM1 models, such
as expense, workforce & sales planning
• ControlWORQ: Excel & Web-based Financial Consolidations
with TM1 (journals, eliminations, etc)
• ReportWORQ: Report bursting and distribution solution for
TM1
• WebWORQ: Web application development for TM1, including
dashboard and visualization capabilities
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QueBIT FrameWORQ
Solutions

11. • Dozens of Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics project a year
• Dramatic ROI
• Solution Focus
• Galileo – Predictive Demand Planning
• Orion – Predictive Assortment Planning
• Athens – Predictive Claims Subrogation
• Predictive Price Optimization
• IOT Analytics
• Predictive Maintenance
• Predictive Customer Intelligence
• Scheduling Optimization
• Data Scientist for Rent!
Advanced Analytics
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12. • Cognos Analytics Reporting & Analysis
• Dashboarding – KPIs/Scorecards
• Production Reporting
• Sales
• Supply Chain
• Operations
• 75% of clients now claim they are moving to Mobile BI
• Data Warehousing and Big Data
• QueBIT can help with Data Strategy
BI and Data Management
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13. What is iQue
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14. TM1
Flat Files
ODBC & ODBO
TM1
Views/Subsets
Package
Connector
Execute
Command
Java
Extensions
What can we see & do from
a TM1 Server?
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Cloud & On Prem
On Prem Only

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But… what about?
• Non-ODBC data sources
• External applications & services: Data
• Weather, Markets, Twitter, etc.
• External applications & services
• Watson, Messaging, Monitoring
• Anything found in IBM BlueMix & similar platforms
• https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/?category=services

16. What is iQue
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TM1RESTAPI
3rdPartySDKs,APIs,etc.

17. • Wizards to help define connections & mappings between TM1 instances and
3rd party services
• Connectors that can be used to execute those saved connection and
mapping definitions
• Current support for:
• QueBIT’s time series forecasting engine (Euclid)
• SMS messaging
• Future support: Customer requests/demand (e.g., Watson & other BlueMix
services)
What is iQue
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18. Demo
Texting while TM1’ing
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19. What is Predictive
Demand Planning?
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20. • Collaboration of data science (predictive
modeling/forecasting), sales, inventory management and
finance
• Data science driven forecasts that maximize accuracy by leveraging
causal data
• Forecast Value Add metrics/alerts that identify potential issues
quickly/efficiently
• Collaborative environment where sales, inventory management and
finance can work together to optimize inventory levels, model P&L
impacts and perform “what if” scenario testing
What is Predictive Demand
Planning?
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21. • Traditional Demand Planning Solutions:
• Are based on naïve seasonality and trend forecasting techniques and
do not include causal data such as weather, pricing, promotions,
macro-economics effects
• Struggle with new items
• Struggle with low velocity items
• Present difficulties with changing drivers and structures within
database
• Are not interactive and do not allow for “what if” scenario testing
• Are not truly collaborative: sales, IM and finance
Why would you need predictive
demand planning?
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22. QueBIT’s Unique Approach
to Forecasting
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23. QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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Product sales by month – how do
predictive and traditional tools
compare?

24. QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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Seasonality can be extracted by
removing the overall trend

25. The trend is decidedly non-linear and
drops off dramatically in 2014
QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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26. QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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But other forecasting tools assume
linearity and would create a trend
below (and then layer on seasonality)

27. The sales trend is highly correlated
with overall marketing spend –
therefore, we want to predict the past
(and future) demand trend using
marketing spend (and other
predictors)
QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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28. QueBIT’s Unique Approach to Forecasting
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Our approach generates a more
realistic forecast by incorporating
causal data (such as marketing
spend)

29. What is Euclid?
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30. • Euclid is QueBIT’s native Java predictive modeling engine
• Extremely high performance (multi-threaded)
• Contains proven, unique QueBIT intellectual property (based on deep
knowledge of data science)
• REST API that can be leveraged by TM1 using iQue
What is Euclid?
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31. Algorithms supported:
• Forecasting:
• Seasonal Forecasting Model with Causal Predictors
• ARIMA
• Clustering/Segmentation:
• KMeans (with automatic # of clusters optimization)
• KMedians
• Predictive Modeling:
• Multiple Linear Regression
• RandomForest
• C5 Decision Trees
• Logistic Regression
• Deep Neural Networks
• Text Mining:
• Latent Dirichlet Analysis (aka Topic Modeling)
What is Euclid?
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32. Availability:
• On-premise
• Hosted pay-as-you-go service
What is Euclid?
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33. Demo
Call the Euclid Predictive Demand
Planning Engine from TM1
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34. • A set of dashboard pages created in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)
• How we define mappings from existing TM1 models to Euclid
• Execution of a pre-defined iQue package that calls QueBIT’s Euclid
predictive demand planning engine:
• Approximately 100,000 data points consisting of historical weekly data (going
back 2 year) and predictors (unit price, ad & digital spend) extracted from
TM1 and sent to Euclid
• Euclid returned predictive forecast for the next 52 weeks along with a lower
and upper confidence interval for the same period, which was then loaded
into TM1
• Increased digital ad spend by 400%, re-ran Euclid prediction to see impact
What did you just see?
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35. Questions?
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• On Twitter
• #askquebit or @QueBIT_TM1
• Expo hall:
• Booth #11
• More about iQue/sign up for beta: http://www.quebit.com/iQue
• Visit us on our IBM Vision 2017 page for more:
• http://quebit.com/who-we-are/resources/vision-2017/

36. Thank You!
Other Sessions with QueBIT
• 1148 (Wed @ 11:15am): Leveraging Planning Analytics & CDM to streamline Financial Reporting and improve
Budgeting at Stein Mart
• 1095 (Wed @ 3:00pm): Prescriptive Analytics & CPLEX Decision Optimization and TM1 Dashboard: Combined
Planning Power at JLG Industries
• 1091 (Thurs @ 9:15am): Auditable Financial System for Government Contracting at Accenture Federal Serv
• 1220 (Thurs @ 10:45am): Planning Analytics: Working Alongside Hyperion for Operational Analytics at NiSource ices
• 1093 (Thurs @ 10:45am): Leveraging TM1 for Merchandise Planning at Tractor Supply Company
Be sure to stop by and visit us at Booth #11 and…
Visit us on our IBM Vision 2017 page for more:
http://quebit.com/who-we-are/resources/vision-2017/