TM1 Budgeting & Forecasting

For the best business outcomes, your company needs to plan, forecast and budget effectively. You must also get the right information to the right people in the form they need it—and be able to make changes quickly. IBM Cognos® TM1 provides a complete planning, budgeting and forecasting environment that supports the full range of business requirements.

With high-performance, on-demand financial analytics, flexible modeling and enterprise contribution for a broad range of users, Cognos TM1 helps you develop timely, reliable forecasts, budgets and plans, reducing planning cycles by as much as 75%.

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Scorecarding

IBM Cognos BI Scorecarding software helps you align your tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently and monitor performance against targets. You can use IBM Cognos BI Scorecarding to manage the full scope of your business processes:

• Create scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content across all of your organization, and encourage broader use of scorecard and business strategy information.
• Build strategy maps, cause-and-effect diagrams, and other elements of the Balanced Scorecard.
• Deliver e-mail alerts to a user’s desktop, remote location or PDA when the status of a metric changes.
• Ensure ownership and accountability so that performance issues are not overlooked.

Dashboards

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Dashboarding solutions help you monitor, measure and manage corporate performance. Dashboards provide an at-a-glance, factual and timely view of business performance. You can identify anomalies that could turn into significant business issues, and you can dig deeper into root causes. IBM Cognos BI Dashboard solutions:

• Offer personalized views of trusted key information.
• Deliver a high degree of visualization with graphs, gauges and charts.
• Can easily be delivered in multiple formats to suit specific needs of business users.
• Are easy to manage from an IT perspective.

Analysis

IBM Cognos BI Analysis enables the interactive exploration of information regardless of where the data is stored (OLAP and dimensionally modeled relational sources). It is particularly useful for managers and analysts who need to analyze and report trends in organizational performance. IBM Cognos BI Analysis enables you to:

• Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the "why" behind an event or action to improve business performance.
• Explore large complex data sets using drag-and-drop techniques. Drill down through increasing levels of detail and view by different dimensions, such as sales per region or by product.
• View and analyze data relationships graphically and change displays easily. You can easily drill down, rank, sort, forecast and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes and effects.

Reporting

IBM Cognos BI Reporting enables you to make smarter business decisions by providing a comprehensive set of reporting capabilities and access to the information you need. Reporting with IBM Cognos BI delivers a single, Web-based, solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle:

• Self-service reporting enables you to get the information you need quickly and easily without relying on IT.
• Author once, access anywhere enables IT to create a single report that can be accessed on multiple devices, in 25+ languages, in multiple formats, and in other applications and processes.
• Report lifecycle enables collaboration between business and IT by enabling the sharing of queries and reports.