Enterprise planning, budgeting and analysis
In today’s challenging economy, the answers to three rudimentary
performance questions are more important than ever:
- How are we doing?
- Why are we on or off track?
- What should we do to address performance gaps quickly?
To answer these questions and to anticipate the best course of action
for better 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.
This coordinated approach requires a highly flexible enterprise
planning solution that aligns financial and operational targets in one
connected, dynamic solution.
IBM Cognos® TM1® provides a complete planning, budgeting and
analysis environment for critical company-wide performance
management activities driven by Finance. Cognos TM1 supports a full
range of business requirements: from high-performance, financial
analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise contribution for a broad
range of users—from manufacturing, sales and service to human
resources and marketing.
Cognos TM1 addresses all of these interrelated needs with:
- On-demand analysis
- Data and user scalability
- Data integrity
- A multi-dimensional database and data tools
- Automated workflow
- A choice of interfaces: Microsoft® Excel®, web and a contribution interface for managed participation
Your financial executives, planners, controllers and line of business
managers can change input values and recalculate them in on demand.
With a consolidated view of plans, they can reset details to attack
business problems immediately, rather than wait hours to make changes.
Click here to download the IBM Cognos TM1 Fact Sheet