Planning Analytics on Cloud Pak for Data

IBM Planning Analytics is an integrated planning solution that uses AI to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting and drive more intelligent workflows. It includes three components, which access data on the Planning Analytics TM1 database.

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is a web-based interface that provides full modeling, reporting, and administrative capabilities. Use Planning Analytics Workspace to:

• build a model of your business
• import and maintain business data
• manage users and administer security
• monitor and administer the Planning Analytics database where your data resides
• automate common processes and chores
• create and share complex reports, complete with visualizations
• build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios
• contribute to the planning process with advanced data entry capabilities

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel is an Excel-based tool that you can use to interact with Planning Analytics data in a familiar spreadsheet environment. Use Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel to:

• build and share a variety of report types, from simple to sophisticated
• enhance reports with standard Excel functions and a full range of custom Planning Analytics functions
• build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios
• contribute to the planning process with advanced data entry capabilities

Planning Analytics TM1 Web is a web-based interface that you can use to interact with Planning Analytics data. Use TM1 Web to:

• view, analyze, edit, and chart your Planning Analytics data
• build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios
• contribute to the planning process with advanced data entry capabilities