Financial Planning & Analysis with IBM Planning Analytics
Optimize your Financial Operations with an AI-infused planning solution.
Introduction
AI-Infused planning for modern FP&A
Your finance team can’t be agile with a manual, error-prone and fragmented financial FP&A process. To ensure you’re prepared to react in real time, you need the ability to streamline data across ERP systems, uncover trends and deliver insights quickly. A dynamic performance management solution like IBM Planning Analytics powered by TM1® can reduce labor and costs to help focus on driving business forward. With its tightly integrated Microsoft Excel interface, you can increase adoption while boosting business performance. And with what-if scenario planning, you can test the impact of your decisions before making them.
Statistics
Improve performance tracking
91%
can track actual performance vs budget
Accelerate forecasting
50%
improvement in time to complete a forecast
Test scenarios for highest impact
1.58x
more likely to execute what-if analysis
Based on Aberdeen's study of EPM solution users
FP&A use cases
Plan, budget and forecast
Create driver-based plans that align the CFO’s top-down targets with bottom-up plans.
Strategic planning
Ensure corporate strategic plans and cross-functional plans align with business goals.
Operational planning
Cut costs and improve productivity using deep insights to understand business drivers.
Capital planning
Automate and integrate capital planning to justify major capital projects more easily.
Expense planning
Simplify and align spending with operational tactics and better cash flow management.
Profitability analysis
Perform complex cost allocations and profitability analysis that give a granular view of data.
Demos
Experience more agile financial operations
Watch the solution in action
Discover how IBM Planning Analytics can be used to create and track a financial plan for a large enterprise with multiple divisions, by allowing finance teams to access real-time data across the organization.
Create a revenue plan for yourself
Explore the proprietary, innovative functionality that helps planning professionals overcome common challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting.
Driving business value in the age of analytics
We are confident that our IBM Planning Analytics solution will enable well-informed decision-making for years to come
Marco Calzolari
Head of controlling Retelit
We are now developing a new culture of analytics throughout the finance team—and we see great potential to use IBM Planning Analytics to improve more of our processes.
Jamie Lawton
Group Reporting Manager, Melton Renewable Energy UK
Financial reporting from IBM Planning Analytics helps us identify where we’re performing strongly and where we need to adjust our strategy.
Olli Niiranen
Business Controller, Huurre
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