IBM Cognos Planning

IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning

IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning offers unrivalled power and flexibility to turn strategy into budgets.The system is managed by the finance function and offers real-time visibility into resource requirements and future business results. Driver-based planning and rolling forecasts are supported and serve as the foundation for performance management.

Features

  • Owned by the finance function.
  • Easy modeling language that can be developed by financial analysts.
  • Easily scaleable to any size of organisation.
  • Supports top-down and bottom-up planning and forecasting.
  • Multidimensional slicing-and-dicing, drill-down, and the exclusive break-back feature.
  • Files can be attached at various levels to explain the rationale and policies behind plans and forecasts.
  • Distributed administration shares the responsibility for planning processes across functions, geographies and business units within a secure, unified planning environment. * Flexible deployment inside a browser or a MS Excel interface offers all the advantages of a dedicated solution with the familiarity and convenience of a spreadsheet.
  • Flexible security.

Benefits

  • Define your goals and communicate your strategy for achieving best-in-class status.
  • Replace rigid, annual budgeting with continuous planning—daily, weekly, or monthly.
  • Connect operations and finance—Build plans that maximize operational effectiveness and inform both operational and financial plans.
  • Engage the organization—Users enter data in their own business language instead of unfamiliar financial terms—making it easy to model key business drivers.
  • Gain greater flexibility—Create your own business rules and structures, then modify your model as the organization evolves.
  • Leverage your investment in applications from Oracle and SAP by integrating planning with Cognos reporting and analysis.
  • Cognos Framework Manager transforms heterogeneous BI data sources into a business view that can be used as a data source for IBM Cognos 8 Planning.

Download the IBM Cognos 8 Enterprise Planning datasheet from the link on the right

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