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Many small to large organizations rely on error-prone spreadsheets and manual processes for their business planning needs. Businesses need to evolve their planning and analysis strategies to include continuous, integrated planning. This means creating a single source of truth to streamline planning, manage performance and build alignment across the enterprise.
IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson (PDF, 850 KB) is an AI-infused, continuous integrated planning solution that allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning. This solution breaks down business unit siloes so you can quickly create more accurate plans and forecasts for FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond—all on one platform. Pivot in real-time, accelerate decision making and drive higher performance, all at the speed of modern business.
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- Prebuilt industry solutions for a variety of use cases including finance, workforce, sales and more
- Built-in reporting and analysis capabilities for data visualization, drill-down, and trend analysis
- Data modeling and what-if analysis for more reliable and accurate forecasts
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IBM Planning Analytics is a high-performance continuous integrated planning solution that allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning. Breakdown silos so you can quickly create more accurate plans and forecasts that drive better decisions for FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond—all on one platform.
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Have an IBM expert walk you through the demo step-by-step. The user-friendly Excel and web interfaces speed user adoption and time-to-value with access to the right data to get the answers you need. Learn how you can deliver faster, agile plans and forecasts that pivot in real time to address changing demands.
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Solve your most pressing problems
Finance
Ancestry: Makes FP&A on the IBM Cloud part of their DNA (02:05)
Finance
Improve the accuracy and reliability of your financial plans and forecasts and create a holistic view of performance with continuous integrated planning.
Supply chain
Carhartt: Smarter supply chain planning with IBM Planning Analytics (01:30)
Supply chain
Build synchronized, agile and resilient supply chains with an integrated planning process.
Sales
Pebble Beach creating the best shopping experience with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson (04:18)
Sales
Deliver comprehensive analytics, greater forecast accuracy, growth in top-line revenue and shorter sales cycles.
Workforce
Mueller + IBM: Skilling up a small town workforce (01:25)
Workforce
Develop a dynamic workforce blueprint that enhances business operations and strategies.
Marketing
Grupo Boticário: Predicting consumer demand for cosmetics with insight that is more than skin-deep (03:41)
Marketing
Determine the right marketing mix and resources to drive the highest ROI.
IT
IT Planning
Dynamically plan, track and manage IT projects and IT portfolio to help determine ROI.
Why IBM Planning Analytics with Watson?
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Real-world results
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Mawgif
By analyzing and managing data in real time, Mawgif increased operational performance by 10%, through revenue and efficiency optimization and discovered and prevented theft.
Novolex
Novolex
Novolex reduced their supply chain forecasting process by 83% and improved their inventory position by about 16% with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.
ICBC Argentina
ICBC Argentina
ICBC Argentina reduced time to produce spreadsheet-based “what if” financial scenarios down from a two-day process to just seconds through automated and AI-infused planning analytics.
Industry accolades
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson wins G2 and TrustRadius awards
Learn why IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is a Leader in the G2 Summer 2022 Grid Report for Sales and Ops Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting. It is also listed as Best Feature Set, Best Relationship, and Top Rated on TrustRadius for Corporate Performance Management.
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