Cognos Planning & Analysis
IBM Cognos® TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets.
IBM Cognos Planning® is enterprise planning software that helps you develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently.
IBM Cognos® TM1
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:
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.
In addition, Cognos TM1 blends the workflow activities of planning with advanced personalized analysis, adapted to each contributor’s particular plans. While you’re planning, you’re not just viewing plans, but you’re dynamically building your own alternatives, sharing them with your team and using the best scenarios to make informed decisions. And, because Cognos TM1 is Cognos 10 Ready, you can link your plans and forecasts with reporting and scorecarding for a complete picture from goal setting to measuring progress.

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IBM Cognos Planning®
Savvy organizations use integrated planning, forecasting and analysis to achieve outstanding performance. IBM Cognos® Planning offers everything you need to establish a foundation for best-in-class performance, no matter how complex your business model. A state-of-the-art, highly scalable solution, it integrates operational and financial planning in real time so you can see your resource requirements and your future business performance.
With Cognos Planning, you can build enterprise-wide plans, budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently. Create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions. Proceed from “what-is” to evaluate what-if scenarios critical to forecasting future performance.
Cognos Planning provides the power, flexibility and integrated workflow you need to:
With Cognos Planning, you can build enterprise-wide plans, budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently. Create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions. Proceed from “what-is” to evaluate what-if scenarios critical to forecasting future performance.
Cognos Planning provides the power, flexibility and integrated workflow you need to:
- Spend your time making business decisions, not debating accuracy.
- Create plans and models to fit your business needs.
- Develop sophisticated linked models that accurately reflect your business in all its detail.
- Import enterprise data to develop effective plans.
- Adapt best practices such as driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts
Read everything you want to know about Cognos Planning here.