The Contributor workflow page
in Cognos Planning offers
personalization features
including hierarchy support and
the ability to select and
personalize subsets in a
multi-e.List view. When
users can personalize views
of their responsibilities, their
planning is inherently easier
and faster.Savvy organizations use integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis to achieve outstanding performance. IBM Cognos® Planning offers everything you need to establish a foundation for best-in-class performance, with flexible plans and models to fit your business needs. A state-of-the-art, highly scalable solution, Cognos Planning integrates operational and financial planning on demand, so you can rapidly determine resource requirements and forecast your future business performance.
With Cognos Planning, you can build enterprise-wide plans, budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently and eliminate unproductive activities such as tracking down numbers, fixing broken links and debugging macros. You can create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions – adapting quickly to the changing needs of your organization and your business environment. Proceed from “what is” to evaluate the “what-if” scenarios critical to forecasting future performance.
Cognos Planning provides the performance, flexibility and integrated workflow you need to:
Develop linked models that reflect your business details
Import enterprise data to develop effective plans
Adopt best practices such as driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts
Quickly assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input consistently and automatically from systems and staff from all divisions and locations
Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich, built-in functions
Rapidly transfer data for reporting in downstream databases and OLAP tools
And, since Cognos Planning is designed for finance professionals, you won’t need IT to manage changes to your model or assumptions. In addition, conformance with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Version 10 means that you can extend your planning with enhanced analytics and reporting:
- Perform financial analysis and highly complex profitability and operational analyses with IBM Cognos TM1
- Gain greater insight with enterprise reporting, scorecards, analysis, dashboards, event detection and notification
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