Enterprise planning, budgeting and analysis
In today's challenging economy, the answers to three 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 modelling 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.
