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A new era of agile planning and exploratory analytics
In a dynamic world, you need to make fast decisions and move quickly. Spreadsheets offer control and flexibility, but they are slow and labor-intensive to maintain. The future demands speed, agility and foresight to anticipate and adapt to market conditions.
IBM® Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1, automates your planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. It offers the full functionality of spreadsheets while eliminating manual tasks to drive efficiency. The solution accesses all your data, and it integrates financial results and analysis with operational plans for faster execution. With a dynamic planning and analytics workspace, you can model information and gain insights, communicate using compelling data visualizations, make predictions and perform what-if analysis to test alternative assumptions. Ultimately, you can create timely, reliable plans to put insight into action.
Benefits
Gain forward-looking insights
Uncover real-time insights across your business dimensions using a powerful, in-memory IBM TM1 OLAP engine.
Plan and visualize in an interactive workspace
Link operational tactics to financial plans, synthesize information and see clear data visualizations in a dynamic, self-service workspace.
Perform what-if analysis
Explore scenarios or test business assumptions, and immediately see the financial impact of alternative courses of action.
Leverage your MS Excel skills
Take advantage of a familiar Microsoft Excel interface, where needed. The solution offers full Excel capabilities including graphics and built-in functions.
Choose a deployment that fits your business
Benefit from cloud, on-premises or mixed deployment environments. The flexible, scalable platform can be used by individuals, teams, workgroups or the entire enterprise.
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
“ Equipped with the rich functionality of IBM Planning Analytics, we can help LSBU nurture academic achievement and invest in the future. ”
- Keith Would
- Head of Financial Planning and Reporting
- London South Bank University
“ Our company takes pride in its robust processes that deliver detailed forecasts for the entire business – and the capability provided by IBM Planning Analytics facilitates this. ”
- Andrew Brown
- Project Manager
- Frasers Property Australia
“ IBM Planning Analytics on Cloud helps us build flexible plans for both the immediate and the longer-term future, and to prepare for any contingency. ”
- Alex Houvardas
- Chief Financial Officer
- RAC Insurance
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