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IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson solution brief
Learn how IBM Planning Analytics with Watson accelerates planning and forecasting cycles and allows for collaboration across the business.
Documentation
Find out more about installing, using, and administering IBM Planning Analytics with Watson on the IBM Knowledge Center.
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Discover how IBM Planning Analytics with Watson can work for you with best practice guides, industry use cases, planning models and more.
Demos
Plan, analyze and report with speed, agility, and foresight
Discover how you can create faster and more accurate plans and forecasts in the IBM Planning Analytics with Watson Overview demo.
Integrate financials for better decisions
Discover how you can sync income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow in the IBM Planning Analytics with Watson Finance demo.
Drive more revenue and save costs
Discover how you can integrate and streamline planning, analysis and reporting processes across the enterprise in the IBM Planning Analytics Integrated Business Planning Demo.
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Integrated planning & analysis
Continuous, integrated planning & analysis blog series
Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A)
Learn what xP&A is, why it is important, and how it is evolving the role of finance.
The Future of Financial Planning & Analysis with Digital Transformation
Learn how to modernize your FP&A practice in order to adopt strategies that are focused on process automation, agility, transparency and metric-based insights.
Supply chain planning in an xP&A world
See how supply chain leaders are using integrated planning solutions today to make decisions with a synthesized view of the organization in mind.
Supply chain planning in an xP&A world 2.0
Learn how companies achieve greater inventory accuracy with xP&A solutions.
IBM Planning Analytics delivers continuous integration with Watson
See how IBM Planning Analytics with Watson can provide a truly modern, AI-powered planning solution complete with the strongest scenario planning capabilities in the industry, empowering you to plan continuously.
How xP&A can save your workforce
Learn how to improve workforce planning, and ultimately employee satisfaction, by evolving planning boundaries beyond HR to include collaboration among all departments.
Customer videos
Ancestry
Makes changes to their income statement, balance sheet and cashflow in real time.
Vapo Oy
Uses Planning Analytics with Watson to reduce complexity and implement a new sustainable business model.
Stein Mart
Drives better reporting results for Stein Mart by helping gather data and simplifying it.
Pebble Beach
Analyzes inventory levels, optimizes purchasing, and makes better use of merchandise with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.
Sunbelt Rentals
Optimizes their planning processes and produces new data and reports in a short amount of time with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson and Cognos Analytics.
Montage International
Expands luxury properties rapidly through the real-time visibility that IBM Planning Analytics with Watson and Cognos Analytics provide.
Case studies
London South Bank University
Goodpack IBC (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
Goodpack IBC (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
Reduces budget collation by 108 hours per quarter, helping turn multiple versions of the budget around faster.
KAZANCI HOLDING
KAZANCI HOLDING
Takes less than five days to consolidate group financials, 10 days faster than the previous method.
Länsförsäkringar AB
Länsförsäkringar AB
Drives precision in long-term forecasts by increasing planning cycles to 10 annually.
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