Plaicel
by ForQuest Solutions
IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) data live in Excel Web, Win/Mac, iPad - and AI reads it directly.
Plaicel™ by ForQuest Solutions brings live IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) data into Microsoft Excel - in the browser, on the desktop, on a Mac, and on an iPad. No desktop install. No VPN. Open Excel, connect to your TM1 environment, and start working.
Plaicel is a modern Office.js web add-in, so IT publishes one URL and finance, operations and supply chain teams are running in minutes - including on machines where a traditional Excel add-in cannot be installed.
Your TM1 data, read directly by AI
Most tools put AI in a chat panel beside your data. Plaicel puts the data where AI already looks.
Plaicel writes live TM1 values into real Excel cells, not a proprietary grid - so any AI assistant that reads a worksheet is reading your planning model. Ask Claude for Excel to explain a variance, test a scenario, or summarize what is driving a number, and it answers against current TM1 values, in Excel for the web. No export. No copy-paste. No stale extract.
Plaicel also includes an AI assistant in the task pane with read-only access to your model, for questions about structure and lineage - which cube holds a figure, how it was calculated, what a view contains.
What you can do
- Live read and write - query and commit TM1 cube data directly from Excel formulas over the REST API
- Cube viewer - drag-and-drop pivot and zero suppression, then send the view to a worksheet as a live or static report
- Drill in the worksheet - expand and collapse members inline; every expand re-queries TM1, so the numbers are always current
- Formatting that sticks - number and style formats bind to the member level and travel with the workbook
- Co-authoring - Plaicel reports work in shared workbooks in Excel for the web
Built for enterprise IT
- Per-user authentication - OIDC, OAuth 2.0, CAM and basic. No shared service accounts.
- OIDC-native, aligned with IBM's Planning Analytics v12 / 3.x direction
- Works with PA Cloud, PA Local, PA 3.x and hybrid deployments
- Credentials are brokered server-side - the Excel client never connects to TM1 directly
- Reaches on-premises TM1 without opening inbound firewall ports
Requirements
Plaicel requires an IBM Planning Analytics license, sold separately by IBM. A 30-day free trial is included.
Built by ForQuest Solutions - IBM Planning Analytics specialists.
App capabilities
- Can read and make changes to your document
- Can send data over the Internet