IBM Planning Analytics
(Powered by IBM Cognos TM1)
Planning Analytics is a solution powered by IBM Cognos TM1 that automates your planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes.
What’s New
IBM Planning Analytics V2.0.6
Planning Analytics V2.0.6 incorporates cumulative updates to earlier versions of IBM TM1 Server, offers new trade-up part numbers, and adds a year to the support period for each of the products.
Planning Analytics is supported on selected levels of Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, and Red Hat Linux.
IBM intends to enable organizations that have entitlement to Planning Analytics Local with the ability to use the planning analytics workspace function in conjunction with TM1 Server V2.0.5 or V2.0.6 and the existing planning analytics administration component of the workspace for operational administrators function to monitor and configure TM1 databases.
A new era of agile planning and exploratory analytics
In today’s volatile business environment, organizations need speed, agility and foresight in their financial and operational performance management. IBM Planning Analytics delivers on all three. Powered by IBM TM1 and deployable on cloud or on premises, IBM Planning Analytics automates planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. It enables Finance and line of business users to coordinate their planning, linking key business drivers to financial KPIs.
This powerful financial planning and analysis solution helps you:
- Create timely, reliable plans, budgets and forecasts
- Perform in-depth, what-if scenario analysis to test assumptions and compare alternatives
- Build multidimensional models to analyze profitability by product, customer, region
- Communicate insights with compelling, self-service visualizations
- Collaborate and integrate plans across Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, HR.
- Gain forward-looking insights: uncover real-time insights across your business dimensions using a powerful, in-memory IBM TM1 OLAP engine.
- Plan and visualize in an interactive workspace: link operational tactics to financial plans, synthesize information and see clear data visualizations in a dynamic, self-service workspace.
- Perform what-if analysis: explore scenarios or test business assumptions, and immediately see the financial impact of alternative courses of action.
- Leverage your MS Excel skills: take advantage of a familiar Microsoft Excel interface, where needed. The solution offers full Excel capabilities including graphics and built-in functions.
- Choose a deployment that fits your business: Benefit from cloud, on-premises or mixed deployment environments. The flexible, scalable platform can be used by individuals, teams, workgroups or the entire enterprise.
