Why Bedrock?

Given that there is a large uptake of TM1 globally there exists an education gap that is ever widening. With this hunger for standards and experience, Bedrock is not just a home for all these questions on how TM1 works from the ground up or what the best implementation methodologies are. Uniquely, it is a quick-start collection of assets to dramatically increase efficiency and effectiveness of your TM1 system. There is a firm belief within the contributors of this site that TM1 systems are capable of much more valuable business insights than other products in the marketplace. Financial Reporting, Financial Budgeting or Operational Planning systems may be attempted by many products and could easily be successful.

However, these are “First Phase” systems and business value takes a quantum leap when the Operational and Financial are automatically linked – not by over-night batch processing but by real-time automatic calculations. Bedrock’s genesis was exactly this – a code name for an internal methodology originally named to “initiate standards and Best Practice TM1”, ultimately culminating in the uninhibited growth of TM1 systems. Hence Bedrock is about “Second Phase” TM1 systems and beyond.

It should be emphasized that Bedrock is not intended as a vehicle for commercial gain. See “How to Licence”. It is intended solely to increase TM1 knowledge and standards so that all implementers, whether professional services or end users can drive better results for the end user company and ultimately ensure TM1’s unique platform is demonstrably superior to other business intelligence products.

The future for Bedrock depends largely on the TM1 community to help build out the education and tools already contained on this site. If you benefit from these assets, please take the time to give back in the near future.

Who is Bedrock for?

Developers, Consultancies and Sub-contractors

Resources at Bedrock should be used by anyone involved in the creation, implementation, management and support of IBM TM1 / Planning Anaytics systems especially those with an interest in a shared, best practice approach.

This includes developers, support analysts, administrators, IT managers, consultancies, sub-contractors and even end users wanting to step into development or administration.

Each and every TM1 system is a balance of Functionality, Performance & Maintainability. It is a never-ending battle as business requirements and environments changes. Bedrock for TM1 incorporates up-to-date Black Belt Best Practice techniques and tools so that your end-customer can get the optimal balance right now and into the future. Developer’s build-time will be reduced with greater ease of proto-typing ensuring a greater fit-for-purpose to suit the business needs better.

Administrators and IT Managers

Business as Usual (BAU) administrators will be more responsive due to more consistent auditing and more simplistic, standardised code. They will see more audited activity culminating in less “black box” risk. Succession issues will be less risky due to better standards and understanding of the system.

End Users

End Users who never thought they could develop now find TM1 simpler and clearer to develop and administrate. Bedrock for TM1 shortens and flattens the Learning Curve for development.

How to license Bedrock?

Anyone is free to copy, modify, use, compile, sell or distribute the original Bedrock code, documents and information (the information), either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means, with the exception that you may not reproduce or publish the information on any web site, online service or printed media without prior express permission.

Where the information is copied, modified, used, compiled, sold or distributed, credit to the original author or authors must be left intact in the code or document.

All of the deliverable code on this site has been written from scratch. No code has been taken from other projects or from the open internet. Every line of code can be traced back to its original author. So the Bedrock code base is clean and is uncontaminated with licensed code from other projects.