IBM Business Analytics Enterprise

Improve business planning and outcomes with data-driven decision making
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Overview

IBM Business Analytics Enterprise provides a single entry no-code content hub to discover, personalize and recommend business analytics content among multiple vendors. Out-of-the-box, it provides an analytics platform with predictive analytics, reporting, data analytics and integration capabilities.

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Composite dashboards

Compile content assets across business intelligence vendors into a single, integrated view, accessible to all users.

Insightful decisions

Make confident business decisions informed by real metrics and insights and take the guesswork out of decision making.

Easy collaboration

Scale and adjust business objectives and plans as you collaborate across your organization without having to reinvent business processes.

Enhanced customer service

Make smarter decisions on resource allocation or manufacturing, providing more streamlined delivery for customers.

 

Use cases
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Plan, budget and forecast

Use predictive analytics to deliver dynamic, reliable plans, budgets, and forecasts that can easily pivot with market changes.

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Business intelligence

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Consolidate and personalize

Create a no-code composite dashboard with AI-powered recommendations and user search customization for all of your content and users. 

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Features

Dashboard with sections showing units by country/region on a world map, budget units by product in a bar chart, units trend for EU in a line chart and sales by cap model in a heatmap.
Data management

Bring multiple assets from different data sources into one dashboard for easy access, fast thinking and faster decisions.

Dashboard displaying sales performance metrics with key indicators for profit and quantity sold year-to-date and bar charts comparing monthly sales data of the current and previous years as well as units sold by model.
Visualization layer

Search, discover, access, personalize and recommend content among multiple BI vendors and solutions from a single hub.

Dashboard displaying weekly and daily sales performance, product and promotion sales budgets and margin score breakdown by day.
Personalization

Use artificial intelligence to recommend content to users and allow for user search customization. Design the platform to be consistent with your organization's branding and customer experience.

Dashboard displaying forecast preview with accuracy metrics, statistical model details, and model influencers by trend strength and predictive accuracy
Forecast optimization

Integrate operational, profitability and financial planning and analysis with automated tooling to optimize decision making. Predictive analytics identify trends and seasonal patterns in both historical and external data sets and forecasting.

Dashboard showing sales performance metrics including unit sales, gross revenue, gross margin, and gross margin percentage with a line graph of trends over time and a detailed table of monthly data
Real-time, continuous, integrated planning

Adjust organizational plans and forecasts in real time. Adapt to changing demands at the speed of business or market events with AI-infused extended planning and analysis. Move beyond spreadsheets with simple, web-based interfaces with managed and governed workflows.

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Enterprise reporting

Scalable reporting for any enterprise to boost your data analytics culture. Provide the right data, to the right people, at the right time, in the best way possible.

Dashboard with sections showing units by country/region on a world map, budget units by product in a bar chart, units trend for EU in a line chart and sales by cap model in a heatmap.
Data management

Bring multiple assets from different data sources into one dashboard for easy access, fast thinking and faster decisions.

Dashboard displaying sales performance metrics with key indicators for profit and quantity sold year-to-date and bar charts comparing monthly sales data of the current and previous years as well as units sold by model.
Visualization layer

Search, discover, access, personalize and recommend content among multiple BI vendors and solutions from a single hub.

Dashboard displaying weekly and daily sales performance, product and promotion sales budgets and margin score breakdown by day.
Personalization

Use artificial intelligence to recommend content to users and allow for user search customization. Design the platform to be consistent with your organization's branding and customer experience.

Dashboard displaying forecast preview with accuracy metrics, statistical model details, and model influencers by trend strength and predictive accuracy
Forecast optimization

Integrate operational, profitability and financial planning and analysis with automated tooling to optimize decision making. Predictive analytics identify trends and seasonal patterns in both historical and external data sets and forecasting.

Dashboard showing sales performance metrics including unit sales, gross revenue, gross margin, and gross margin percentage with a line graph of trends over time and a detailed table of monthly data
Real-time, continuous, integrated planning

Adjust organizational plans and forecasts in real time. Adapt to changing demands at the speed of business or market events with AI-infused extended planning and analysis. Move beyond spreadsheets with simple, web-based interfaces with managed and governed workflows.

Screenshot of QTD profit by dealer data
Enterprise reporting

Scalable reporting for any enterprise to boost your data analytics culture. Provide the right data, to the right people, at the right time, in the best way possible.

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