IBM Planning Analytics powered by Cognos TM1
IBM Planning Analytics, powered by IBM Cognos TM1, automates your planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. IBM Planning Analytics offers the full functionality of spreadsheets while eliminating manual tasks to drive efficiency. The solution accesses your data and it integrates financial results and analysis with operational plans for faster execution.
Planning Analytics helps you:
- Create timely, reliable plans, budgets and forecasts
- Perform in-depth, what-if scenario analysis to test assumptions and compare alternatives
- Build multi-dimensional models to analyse profitability by product, customer, region and more
- Communicate insights with compelling, self-service visualisations
- Collaborate and integrate plans across Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, HR and more
IBM Planning Analytics is an integrated planning solution that uses AI to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting and drive more intelligent workflows. It includes two user interfaces:
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is a web-based interface that provides full modeling, reporting, and administrative capabilities. Use Planning Analytics Workspace to:
- build a model of your business
- import and maintain business data
- manage users and administer security
- monitor and administer the Planning Analytics database where your data resides
- automate common processes and chores
- create and share complex reports, complete with visualizations
- build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios
- contribute to the planning process with advanced data entry capabilities
Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel is an Excel-based tool that you can use to interact with Planning Analytics data in a familiar spreadsheet environment. Use Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel to:
- build and share a variety of report types, from simple to sophisticated
- enhance reports with standard Excel functions and a full range of custom Planning Analytics functions
- build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios
- contribute to the planning process with advanced data entry capabilities
In addition to the two user-interfaces, there are number of readily available apps users have ‘out of the box’ which accelerate the implementation time required:
- Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
- Consolidation
- Capex Planning
- Workforce Planning
IBM Planning Analytics Enabling Finance Transformation
IBM Planning Analytics is an integrated planning solution that uses AI to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting and drive more intelligent workflows. Built on TM1, IBM’s powerful calculation engine, this performance management tool allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning. Quickly and easily drive faster, more accurate plans for FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond.
All-in-one solution for planning, analysis and reporting
Ever tried piecing together budgeting, modelling, analysis, and reporting tools? It gets painful, fast. In Planning Analytics everything works together—from planning to dashboards and visual analysis. There’s no fussing with separate logins and apps. Just one solution for all your FP&A and management reporting needs.
Budget and plan faster, without compromising scalability and performances
Our customers achieve faster budgeting cycles because we eliminate hundreds of disconnected spreadsheets from the process, cut manual errors, and automate roll-ups. You spend more time analysing and less time double-checking formulas. IBM Planning Analytics enables business-wide planning, from balance sheet and cash flow, to expense, personnel, and revenue forecasting.
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