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demo-icon IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Agility to Transform Your Business
Improve your performance with IBM Cognos 8 Planning.

demo-icon IBM Cognos TM1
See why IBM Cognos TM1 has built the best track record in financial performance management. IBM Cognos TM1 provides:

  • Improved planning, analytics, and "what-if" scenario modeling.
  • Self-service analysis and optimization of complex data sets with real-time response.
  • Unmatched abilities to analyze profitability, sales mix, and price/volume variance.

demo-icon IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer
Gain greater insight into your business with on-the-fly answers to critical questions:

  • Explore data from any perspective and identify business drivers and exceptions.
  • Dynamically sort/select/pivot information.
  • Create custom reports and dashboards with tables, graphs, and notes.

 

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demo-icon demo-icon Smarter Expense Planning in Turbulent Times
A demonstration of IBM Cognos solutions for planning, budgeting and forecasting.

demo-icon demo-icon Forecasting in Turbulent Times
A demonstration of IBM Cognos solutions for planning, budgeting and forecasting.

demo-icon demo-icon IBM Cognos 8 Controller Demo
Learn best practices for:

  • Managing the processes of consolidating financial information.
  • Delivering external management and corporate reporting.
  • Providing transparency to sustain compliance and performance.

demo-icon demo-icon Performance Management Demo
See how plans, financial reports, and scorecards can help you manage performance in every department.

  • Learn why analytics are your competitive advantage
  • Understand what drives performance in each department
  • See how Cognos capabilities work together for better performance

Solutions Demos

IBM Cognos Financial Performance Management Blueprints

IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints are pre-defined models that help speed software deployments and drive faster ROI. Blueprints can improve the performance of critical financial processes including:

  • Planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
  • Close, consolidate and reporting
  • Management and financial reporting

Financial Blueprints Demos:

demo-icon demo-icon Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting (GCCR)
This Cognos 8 Controller-based Blueprint streamlines the close, consolidate, and reporting process. And it provides a finance-managed solution to help companies meet the strict requirements of Europe’s International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

demo-icon demo-icon Allocations Planning
The Allocations Planning Blueprint enables cost-center managers to allocate expenses to the appropriate profit centers. Profit-center managers collaborate with cost-center managers to either accept or reject proposed allocations.

demo-icon demo-icon Financial Consolidation & Reporting for Visionary Finance Executives: IBM Cognos Controller
Learn best practices for: Managing the processes of consolidating financial information. Delivering external management and corporate reporting. Providing transparency to sustain compliance and performance.

demo-icon demo-icon Performance & Compliance: Neither is Optional
Learn how to deal with the paradox of managing compliance while improving performance. This microsite offers valuable insights on how you can streamline consolidation, compliance and reporting processes - while enhancing performance management.

demo-icon demo-icon Initiative Planning
This Blueprint uses projections from planning systems or other Blueprints, as well as actual history, to drive labor or capital expense planning for new initiatives.

demo-icon demo-icon Strategic Long Range Planning
This Blueprint uses projections from the Initiative Planning Blueprint and the Strategic Financial Planning and Forecasting Blueprint (PDF) to assess the impact of market growth and strategic initiatives on corporate P/L projections over a five-year period.

demo-icon demo-icon Management and Financial Reporting
This Blueprint increases the efficiency of the financial consolidation process. It also helps provide timely performance reports tailored to the needs of business managers and internal and external stakeholders.

demo-icon demo-icon IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition
IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition is a complete financial performance management (FPM) solution. Discover how to structure and automate your key financial processes and learn to:

  • Streamline information gathering, aggregation, and analysis.
  • Maintain data and generate reports quickly and easily with components like wizards, workflow, pre-built databases, sample cubes, and plans.
  • Enable ‘what-if’ scenario modeling for improved business optimization.
 
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