Features and benefits
Cognos TM1 facilitates
best practices such as driver-based planning, rolling forecasts, and
profitability analysis integrated with planning. It elevates the ability of
Finance to manage performance proactively. And with the full range of planning
processes tied to an organization’s operational front lines, Cognos TM1 enables
planners and analysts to uncover hidden business options, increase profits and
manage capital effectively
Cognos TM1 addresses the
full planning cycle with:
Ø A personal analytics workspace, wired to the
broader enterprise, which combines planning, analysis, reporting and personal
dashboarding in a single interface
Ø An innovative, guided modeling environment that
eases development and deployment of planning, analysis and forecasting
solutions
Ø Patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP for enterprise
scalability
Ø A choice of interfaces including Microsoft Excel,
Cognos TM1 Web and the Cognos TM1 Contributor client to accommodate a broad
range of work styles, as well as Cognos Insight for non-Excel users
Ø Connections to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
for a single, integrated platform that consolidates data from multiple sources
such as personal data files, spreadsheets, ERP or other enterprise applications
Ø Role-based security for multiple users and user
types. Advanced predefined selection options ensure that users see only those
portions of the plan that they need to see
Ø A choice of distributed or centralized planning
deployments for a wide range of users and interactions
Ø Full Unicode support that accommodates string
lengths expanded beyond 255 characters. Includes language support for Japanese
and simplified Chinese
Ø Capability to extend ERP investments with the IBM
Cognos data orchestration tool. This tool easily connects to data warehouses,
Microsoft Excel worksheets or any ODBC-compliant database
These advanced capabilities help companies become highly
collaborative and adaptive. Multiple users in functions such as sales,
marketing, and HR can analyze planning results – either online or offline – and
explore alternative scenarios with an easy-to-use, graphical interface. Users
can share plans in dashboards or reports, and easily prompt team members for
comments and validation.
When a plan model has been completed, a
financial or business analyst can publish the analysis to the enterprise, then
develop the model further, link it to other models to form a cohesive system,
or deploy it to workgroups or others for their contributions. Cognos TM1 also
enables planning team members to perform complex analytics such as
profitability analysis or predictive or risk analytics for even greater insight.
