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A new era of agile planning and exploratory analytics
In today’s volatile business environment, organizations need speed, agility and foresight in their financial and operational performance management. IBM Planning Analytics delivers on all three. Powered by IBM TM1 and deployable on cloud or on premises, IBM Planning Analytics automates planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. It enables Finance and line of business users to coordinate their planning, linking key business drivers to financial KPIs.
This powerful financial planning and analysis solution helps you:
- Create timely, reliable plans, budgets and forecasts
- Perform in-depth, what-if scenario analysis to test assumptions and compare alternatives
- Build multidimensional models to analyze profitability by product, customer, region and more
- Communicate insights with compelling, self-service visualizations
- Collaborate and integrate plans across Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, HR and more
Business benefits
Accelerate decisions
With a single source of truth, you can reduce planning cycles, get real-time insights and make more informed decisions.
Collaborate in every way
Use a single solution in place of point solutions, so you can integrate multiple data sources and align top-down strategies with bottom-up execution.
Be agile
Easily perform data analysis, use what-if scenarios, and adjust plans and forecasts in real time to anticipate or adapt to change
Key features
- Customizable workspace
- Data integration with SAP, Oracle and other sources
- In-memory analytics
- Predictive insights uncovered automatically
- Flexible, scalable deployment
- Multidimensional scenario modeling
Testimonials
“ IBM Planning Analytics helps us drill down into sales performance. Using this information, we can optimize our production and marketing decisions to get the biggest returns, helping us drive up our profits. ”
- Vince Mertens
- Group Accounting and Consolidation Manager
- Continental Foods
“ Our operations are complex, but IBM Planning Analytics makes it simple to get an overview of our financial performance. We can build every report we need within the platform. ”
- Olli Niiranen
- Business Controller
- Huurre
“ It used to take at least a day to complete our payroll planning… Now, IBM Planning Analytics completes the same workload in just under 60 minutes, cutting loading times by 85 percent. ”
- Keith Would
- Head of Financial Planning and Reporting
- London South Bank University
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