Planning Analytics architecture

IBM® Planning Analytics employs a distributed, client-server architecture that consists of the IBM TM1® Server to which a combination of different clients can connect.

Figure 1. High-level overview of the IBM Planning Analytics client-server architecture
High-level overview of the entire Planning Analytics client-server architecture.

Planning Analytics provides the following clients and user interfaces:

  • Cognos® TM1 Perspectives
  • Cognos TM1 Architect
  • Cognos TM1 Web client
  • Cognos TM1 Application portal and workflow (using the Cognos TM1 Application Server)
  • Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler
  • Cognos Insight

In this environment, corporate data resides on remote servers, which authorized clients can access. Depending on how you set up the system, clients can access one or more remote TM1 Servers to obtain different kinds of data.

Windows desktop clients

TM1 Perspectives and TM1 Architect can connect to a local TM1 Server, which acts as a repository for private TM1 data. If you have permission, you can copy data from a remote server to your local server by replicating that data, and then synchronize your updates back to the remote server.

TM1 Perspectives, TM1 Architect, and TM1 Client are standard TM1 clients. In a normal LAN or WAN environment, these clients all communicate with a remote server using the TCP/IP network protocol.