Start IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel and open the sample package

To access data, you must start IBM® Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel and then select a data package. Depending on how your server and data have been set up, you might have to expand several node items to access the sample data set.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel.
  2. From the IBM Planning Analytics tab, click Connect and select the server that has the IBM Cognos® Analytics sample data.
  3. From the list of packages, click GO Sales (query) and then click OK.