Process your planning data 80% faster

Read the Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study to find out the benefits of implementing IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson powered by TM1®.

Benefits

Automate and accelerate

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Manual data collection, validation, aggregation and financial consolidation.

Perform real-time analysis

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Analyze thousands of multidimensional data points from multiple sources.

Deliver accurate forecasts

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Test your assumptions with unlimited “what-if” scenarios before decisions are made.

See how it works

Speed-up your business processes

Increased operational performance

10%

Mawgif increased operational performance by 10% through revenue and efficiency optimization as the result of analyzing and managing data in real-time.

Faster reporting

50%

Generating reports to comply with government-mandated bank stress tests used to require four weeks of staff time. Now stress tests can be performed in two weeks, representing a 50% time savings.

Reduced forecasting effort

83%

Novolex, with steady deployment and adoption across the company, reduced the six-week forecasting process to less than one week—an 83% reduction, even amid changes.

IBM Planning Analytics as a Service—accessible to everyone, everywhere—now available on AWS

Where IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is used

Solve your most pressing problems

Start with just one department. With little to no assistance from IT, you can easily change your business models and add new features.

IBM Planning Analytics software is the ideal platform to facilitate integrated business planning solution. Coupled with a sleek Workspace Dashboard and an Excel interface it appeals to both an analytical user and general report consumers.

Extend planning and analysis (xP&A) from FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond.

Cross-industry use cases

Finance

Financial Planning Analytics

Financial planning and analysis

Transcend the limits of manual planning with simplified, integrated financial planning and analysis. Achieve consensus between income statements, balance sheets and cash flow.

Supply chain

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Supply chain

Blend hierarchy advanced analytics and an unlimited sandbox of “what-if” scenario analysis into your supply chain processes. With the foresight to pivot quickly, you can turn disruptions into opportunities.

Sustainability

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Sustainability planning

Use IBM Planning Analytics with Watson for sustainability planning, reporting, simulation and optimization at any granularity level—even calculate the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF).

Sales

Sales Planning

Sales

Track and analyze sales rep performance and sales capacity data in real-time. Use the power of AI to optimize effective sales processes, enhance productivity and reach revenue targets. Automate resource allocation and territory planning to get a competitive advantage and increase market share.

Workforce

HR management processes

HR and workforce

Automate and streamline HR management processes–employment, salary, bonuses, headcounts, and benefits planning–all in one platform. Develop accurate AI-guided workforce plans and forecasts based on changes in staffing, location, return to work, remuneration, retention, churn rates and more.

Marketing

Plan, track and analyze marketing programs

Marketing

Plan, track and analyze marketing programs in real-time to understand performance metrics against benchmarks and make ongoing adjustments. Create more effective marketing plans and forecasts that drive higher marketing ROI.

IT

IT Planning

IT Planning

Support the business strategy and make better IT decisions. Drive alignment between the IT department and other organizational goals with real-time visibility into resource allocation, spending, life cycles, owners and asset utilization data.

Product features

Why IBM Planning Analytics with Watson?

With IBM Planning Analytics with Watson, built on TM1 technology, you'll get a cell-oriented database with a native Microsoft Excel add-in. Gain access to the functionality you're most familiar with while also reaping the benefits of a fast-performing, AI-infused business intelligence tool.

IBM Planning Analytics with Watson can be deployed onpremise, on Cloud or as a Serviceavailable on AWS.

Built-in reporting

Uncover deep insights through robust dashboards. Create scorecards and metrics—
including ad-hoc reports and compelling visualizations.

Seamless Microsoft Excel integration

Don’t update 100+ spreadsheets. With Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX/PAfE) any adjustment will be applied in real-time to all views.

Predictive forecasting

Optimize your planning workflow templates and deliver more accurate forecasts with simple-to-use, predictive and AI capabilities.

Simple integration

Easily connect various data sources, including existing spreadsheet-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting applications as well as ERP, CRM and any API.

Powerful IBM engine

Real-time, multidimensional data analysis guaranteed by a one-of-a-kind in-memory database and calculation engine built on TM1 technology.

Intuitive user interfaces

Open up the world of advanced analytics to all business users–create and manage plans and reports in a user-friendly Planning Analytics workspace.

What businesses are saying

Recognition and awards

Leader in G2 Winter 2023 Grid Report for Demand Planning, Sales and Ops Planning and Supply Chain Planning

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Badge showing IBM as having Best Value for Price in TrustRadius Summer 2022
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Resources

Analyst research

The Business Intelligence & Analytics Survey 2023

Explore the BARC survey identifying why users view IBM Planning Analytics as a stand out business intelligence and analytics solution.

BARC Score 2022 Integrated Planning & Analytics report

Learn why BARC named IBM Business Analytics solutions a leader for its end-to-end data analytics platform, expansive budgeting, planning, and forecasting capabilities and beyond.

Ventana 2022 Planning Value Index

Learn why Ventana ranked IBM Planning Analytics with Watson as an exemplary vendor in key categories that reflect buyer’s needs.

Blogs

Smart approaches to allocations in enterprise financial and operational planning

Discover how IBM Planning Analytics was used to create an allocation model for  Revelwood that could be added into their existing planning and reporting model.

Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) in action

Learn how companies use IBM Planning Analytics with Watson as a versatile solution for financial, supply chain and human resource planning.

How IBM Planning Analytics can help fix your supply chain

Discover how IBM Planning Analytics can improve supply chain management through planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

Videos

Ancestry: Makes FP&A on the IBM Cloud part of their DNA

Learn how Ancestry.com used IBM Planning Analytics to scale their growth and organizational complexities.

IBM Business Analytics Launch–On Demand

Discover the innovative features of IBM Business Analytics with this comprehensive overview from the product launch.