IBM Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets. IBM Cognos® TM1 allows you to Rapidly analyze data and model business requirements for your entire organization and use the results to budget and forecast with confidence for better business outcomes. More than budgeting and forecasting software, Cognos TM1 is a complete enterprise planning solution.

Features and Benefits of Cognos TM1 Analyze With the deep analytics capabilities of Cognos TM1, powered by the in-memory, 64-bit OLAP server, you can validate your planning assumptions and meet the dynamic needs of your organization with a fact-based approach to the planning process. You can create any number of personalized scenarios--in Excel, the Web or the Contributor interface--and send them out to individuals or teams for their responses. With one more key stroke, you commit your preferred scenario to the business plan effectively streamlining and simplifying the budgeting process.

Model Cognos TM1 provides a single high-performance modeling environment, where every component is integrated.Cognos TM1 adapts to your planning and forecasting processes and rapidly incorporates best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts. Owned by your finance organization and the lines of business, Cognos TM1 provides the self-sufficiency that enables financial and business analysts to build and maintain business models and calculations —and define security to ensure data accuracy and integrity. All business calculations, data and metadata are shared among all Cognos TM1 applications so your teams work with only one set of calculations and data for linked models.

Contribute Cognos TM1 is readily adaptable for high levels of participation. You deploy your planning activities in Microsoft Excel or a managed application in the contribution interface. These two interfaces allow for advanced, on-demand analysis while requiring minimal training, no programming skills and minimal IT assistance. In conjunciton with TM1 Perspectives, Cognos TM1 features an enterprise-ready, Excel-based client that provides all the capabilities of enterprise planning and analysis with the familiar Excel interface. With managed contribution, you can collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations consistently and automatically. This contribution interface supplies an intuitive and structured planning environment, where managed workflow is blended with analysis. Users not only contribute their own data into planning templates, but they can also create their own personalized hierarchies and dimensions. They can roll up data to suit their own business needs, such as adding a new department structure, modifying a product mix or removing a territory.