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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
Benefits
Gain forward-looking insights another
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
“ 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
“ Regional managers often ask us for the cost of payroll for employees in their team. Previously, it took around one person-day to assemble that information—now, we can generate those reports in less than 20 minutes. ”
- Nadia Bertoncini
- Coordinator of Governance, Projects and HR Analytics
- Natura Cosméticos
“ Because we now capture and consolidate everything directly in Planning Analytics, we save around 32 hours per month in forecast preparation time and there is no risk of manual error. ”
- Mick Ferguson
- Finance Manager
- Hunter Industries
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