Benefits of IBM Planning Analytics

What are the benefits of IBM Planning Analytics?

Below are some simple points highlighting the benefits IBM Planning Analytics can bring to the organisation.

Enables finance, operational and departmental business users to create timely, reliable, agile plans, budgets and forecasts in a customisable analytics Workspace.
Automated workflow for process visibility and streamlined planning participation.
Allows users to analyse data from multidimensional planning models in the familiar Microsoft Excel interface.
Supports fast, flexible, what-if scenario modelling.
Manages enterprise-scale data volumes in multidimensional planning cubes.
Leverages internal and external data, including data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
Performs complex cost allocations and profitability analysis, letting users drill down for a granular view of profitabilit, by product, customer, region, sales channel and more.
Facilitates best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts.
Creates compelling visualisations automatically, with a wide variety of charts, tables, maps, images and shapes – plus text and video – to choose from.
Incorporates scorecards and dashboards to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).
Enhances forecast accuracy with embedded predictive forecasting capabilities.
Provides a unified Web, Excel, and mobile experience for all user roles.
Supports natural language searching and multidimensional expressions-based (MDX) queries for fast, powerful analysis.
Provides role-based security to support multiple users and user types and ensure that users see only what they need to.
Facilitates deployment on cloud, on premises, on IBM Cloud Pak for Data or hybrid options.