Create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions and use best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting to determine resource requirements, operating performance and future business results in real time.

• Make decisions instead of debating definitions and accuracy of multiple  spreadsheets  with a unified view of plan  data that connects with key metrics and information.

• Proceed from what-is to evaluate "what-if" scenarios critical to enterprise planning, developing budgets and forecasting future performance with sophisticated modelling instead of spreadsheets.

• Eliminate unproductive activities such as tracking down numbers, fixing broken links and debugging macros.

• Create better visibility of likely operating performance using driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts.

• Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich built-in functions.

• Manage the solution without the need for programming languages or scripting. No IT input is required.

• Quickly explore data, evaluate models, test assumptions and compare current performance with historical actuals and external benchmarks using drill-down and multidimensional cube slicing-and-dicing.

• Enable greater participation, collaboration and commitment with user-friendly Web browser and familiar Microsoft® Excel® interfaces

• With managed contribution, quickly assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations consistently and automatically

• Because Cognos Planning is Cognos 10 Ready, you can link to reporting and dashboards to complete your planning process.