Planning Analytics architecture

IBM® Planning Analytics employs a distributed, client-server architecture that consists of the IBM TM1® Server to which a combination of different clients can connect.

High-level overview of the entire Planning Analytics client-server architecture. — Figure 1. High-level overview of the IBM Planning Analytics client-server architecture

In this environment, corporate data resides on remote servers, which authorized clients can access. Depending on how you set up the system, clients can access one or more remote TM1 Servers to obtain different kinds of data.