IBM Cognos TM1
High-performance enterprise planning software for budgeting, forecasting and analysis
IBM Cognos® TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalised forecasts and budgets.
IBM Cognos TM1 offers:
- Ease of use, thanks to a development environment that enables users to create sophisticated applications with no need for programming or traditional IT skills
- A patented in-memory calculation engine that provides compact data storage and exceptionally fast performance
- Model design and data access that presents business information in familiar formats
- An intuitive, flexible approach, which enables users to easily express complex, multi-dimensional business rules (for example, cost allocation rules which span multiple cost centers or products)
- Built-in data integration capabilities to access IT-managed systems of record
- Strong integration with IBM Cognos 8 Planning, IBM Cognos 8 Controller and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.
Rapidly analyse data and model business requirements for your entire organisation and use the results to budget and forecast with confidence for better business outcomes. More than budgeting and forecasting software, Cognos TM1 is a complete enterprise planning solution.
- A multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine provides exceptionally fast performance for analysing complex and sophisticated models, large data sets and even streamed data.
- Cognos TM1 supports a full range of enterprise planning software requirements—from high-performance, real-time profitability analysis, financial analytics and flexible modelling to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units.
- Personal scenarios created with advanced personalisation enable an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.
- Analytic processing automates contribution from systems and staff to help eliminate delays in rolling out plans—a 75% reduction in planning cycles is possible.
- Cognos TM1 facilitates the use of best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting.
- Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.
- Managed contribution makes it possible to personalise hierarchies, dimensions and rollups and to receive an up-to-the-minute status of every participant in the planning process.
- With access to the IBM Cognos Performance Management platform, you realise consistent scorecarding, reporting and analysis—the complete picture from goal setting and planning, to measuring progress and reporting.
- Finance and lines of business have total control over planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
- You can work with a choice of interfaces: Microsoft® Excel®, Cognos TM1 Web or Cognos TM1 Contributor.
IBM Cognos TM1 has received some of the industry's highest ratings for helping organisations drive better business decisions, with faster implementation times and lower IT costs.
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