IBM Cognos® TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets.

Rapidly analyze data and model business requirements for your entire organization and use the results to budget and forecast with confidence for better business outcomes. More than budgeting and forecasting software, Cognos TM1 is a complete enterprise planning solution.

• A multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine provides exceptionally fast performance for analyzing complex and sophisticated models, large data sets and even streamed data.
• A full range of enterprise planning software requirements is supported—from high-performance, on-demand profitability analysis, financial analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units.
• Personal scenarios created with advanced personalization enable an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.
• Best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting can become part of your enterprise planning process.
• Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.
• Managed contribution makes it possible to assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations, quickly consistently and automatically.
• Integrated scorecarding and reporting— the complete picture from goal setting and planning, to measuring progress and reporting—is possible with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.
• Total control over planning, budgeting and forecasting processes is provided to Finance and lines of business.
• A choice of interfaces—Microsoft® Excel®, Cognos TM1 Web and the Cognos TM1 Contributor client—allows you to work with your preferred look and feel.

Features and Benefits

For the best business outcomes, your company needs to plan, forecast and budget effectively. You must also get the right information to the right people in the form they need it—and be able to make changes quickly. IBM Cognos® TM1 provides a complete planning, budgeting and forecasting environment that supports the full range of business requirements.

With high-performance, on-demand financial analytics, flexible modeling and enterprise contribution for a broad range of users, Cognos TM1 helps you develop timely, reliable forecasts, budgets and plans, reducing planning cycles by as much as 75%.

Cognos TM1 can ramp up your planning, budgeting and analysis with:

• Exceptionally fast performance for large, sophisticated models and large data sets
• A flexible modeling environment that requires no programming or traditional IT skills
• The scalability and flexibility to start with a single planning application and then expand it for use in your entire enterprise
• A choice of interfaces: Microsoft® Excel®, TM1 Web and a built-in client for managed participation
• Role-based security that supports multiple users and ensures that users see only those portions of the plan that they need to