IBM Planning Analytics – Cognos TM1

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:

Planning Analytics Workspace Budget Example
Planning Analytics Workspace Expenses Example
Planning Analytics Excel AddIn

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.

 

Visit IBM.com for more information and case studies: https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/products/planning-analytics/financial-planning-analysis

IBM YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_4RxtD-BL5tZgbo183QO5ivMwyWlZgjJ 

 

We know the accounting solutions used by businesses

IBM Planning Analytics integrates with popular accounting suites like SUN, Dynamics, Netsuite, Open Accounts and Sage. Simply import a spreadsheet or text file into our planning application to get started. Even set up an automated integration with your GL. It’s so easy to import your actuals, you’ll be moving to rolling forecasts in no time.

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