Cognos TM1

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Enterprise planning software for planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis

IBM Cognos® TM1® is enterprise planning software that can radically transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budget rollout all the way to reporting, analysis and reforecasting. With Cognos TM1, you can rapidly analyze data, model business requirements and collaborate on plans, budgets and forecasts to uncover hidden business options and optimize performance.

Powerful analysis – Create and analyze sophisticated budgeting models and forecasts, even those based on large data sets.
Flexible modeling – With a guided modeling environment, your business owners and analysts can develop and deploy even your most complex planning models.
Collaboration with many users – Include input from thousands of users across the organization – exchange commentary and documents.

Powerful analysis

Perform planning tasks through a personal analytics workspace, wired to the broader enterprise – aggregated results are available to higher levels instantly.
Analyze large data sets organized into complex models using the premier multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine.
Execute on-demand profitability analysis.
Follow best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting.
Leverage IBM Cognos Business Intelligence for a single view of performance that consolidates data from multiple sources including spreadsheets, ERP and other enterprise applications.

Flexible modeling

Adopt model design and data access suited to your specific business processes; format the input template for ease of use, flexibility, and fast input and analysis.
Deploy the best interface for all users. Choose from Microsoft Excel, Cognos TM1 Web, Cognos Insight or Cognos TM1 Contributor.
Create personalized scenarios to explore an unlimited number of alternatives. Individuals, teams and departments can respond faster to changing business conditions.
Easily monitor performance metrics for one or more planning servers from a single control panel.

Collaboration with many users

Choose from distributed or centralized planning deployments to support a wide range of users, locations, environments and work profiles, including offline use.
Assemble information automatically and deploy planning solutions quickly to staff in all departments and locations.
Scale to thousands of participants to support top-down and bottom-up budgeting, planning and forecasting.
Extend your ERP investments with guided data and metadata input to easily connect to data warehouses, spreadsheets and databases.
Link planning models together to form a cohesive, corporate view of all functions, departments, offices and geographies.

Cognos TM1 resources

White paper: Extending Planning & Forecasting with Analytics
Steve Player from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable explains how finance teams can use advanced planning and forecasting to gain insight and make better business decisions.

White paper: Planning, budgeting and forecasting: Software guide
Read about a systematic approach to selecting planning, budgeting and forecasting software that facilitates rolling forecasts and more of today’s best practices in finance.

Demo: Cognos Solutions for Profitability, Modeling & Optimization
Watch a brief demonstration to see how IBM Cognos 10 software delivers decision-making insights into how operational and financial activities affect your company's profitability.

White paper: Three Capabilities to Fuel Today’s Dynamic Planning and Forecasting
Read this white paper to learn how the ability to analyze information from a large number of contributors can help companies deal with the uncertainty in today’s economy.

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