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Introducing IBM Cognos TM1 9.5

Get the right information to the right people in the form they need with highly flexible planning, budgeting and analytics for increased accuracy in resource allocation and business forecasting. IBM Cognos® TM1 provides a complete environment for developing timely, reliable and effective forecasts and plans.

New features and benefits include:

• Personalized planning and analytics—within a managed planning process
• Alignment of financial and operational targets in one connected, dynamic solution
• Planning cycles reduced by 75%
• Exceptionally fast performance for scenario analysis of large, sophisticated models and data sets
• Total control for Finance and lines of business

IBM Cognos TM1 supports a full range of business requirements from high-performance, real-time financial analytics, such as for customer and product profitability, and flexible modeling, to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units. In addition, it facilitates use of planning best practices such as driver-based and rolling forecasting.

On-demand analysis

• A 64-bit, in-memory, multi-dimensional OLAP engine provides exceptionally fast performance for complex and sophisticated models, large data sets and even streamed data.
• Personalized hierarchies: the dynamic modeling of hierarchies and dimensions such as customized consolidations and advanced filtering meet the dynamic needs of your organization and effect an immediate business impact.
• Personal scenarios support an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.
• Personalization available in all IBM Cognos TM1 clients (Excel, TM1 Web, TM1 Contributor, and portlets for Cognos 8 BI)
• Drill through to transaction systems helps you confirm your assumptions.

Modular modeling

• Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.
• Metadata, data and business rule definitions are centralized.
• Responsiveness to test scenarios, even with large, sophisticated models, is in real time.
• Data integration tools such as Turbo Integrator, which connects to data warehouses such as the SAP Netweaver® Business Warehouse, streamline and manage the loading of disparate data into business models.
• Centralized dimension management with Business Viewpoint captures, maintains, governs and shares multiple hierarchies, structures and definitions.

Enterprise-level contribution using Excel or Managed Contribution

Excel client

The Enterprise Excel-based client:

• Supports rich planning and analysis solutions
• Provides the familiar Excel interface for TM1 along with personalization, what-if analysis, support from guided applications and the ability to publish to the Web

Managed Contribution

An easy-to-use interface that handles high numbers of participants and analytic processing automates contribution from systems and staff so you can quickly understand the maturity of the planning cycle and eliminate delays in rolling out plans. Two components, IBM Cognos TM1 Contributor and IBM Cognos TM1 Administrator form the foundation of Managed Contribution.

Using IBM Cognos TM1 Contributor:

• High-performance, personalized analytics are combined with rich workflow for rapid user adoption and greater speed and accuracy in planning.
• You can personalize hierarchies and dimensions—and rollups.
• A variety of scenarios can be created and tested, and ad hoc changes can be written back to data sources.
• Advanced filtering features, such as hierarchy leveling and attribute values are included.
• You can drill, sort, link, and even chart data.
• Sophisticated features such as pick lists, undo/redo, and color-coded data changes sharpen your plans.

Using IBM Cognos TM1 Administrator, you can:

• Quickly assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise.
• Receive an up-to-the-minute status of every participant in the planning process.