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IBM Cognos® 8 Planning is enterprise planning software that helps you develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently.

You can create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions and use best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting to determine resource requirements, operating performance and future business results in real time.

• Make decisions instead of debating definitions and accuracy of multiple spreadsheets with a unified view of plan data that connects with key metrics and information.
• Proceed from what-is to evaluate "what-if" scenarios critical to enterprise planning, developing budgets and forecasting future performance with sophisticated modeling instead of spreadsheets.
• Eliminate unproductive activities such as tracking down numbers, fixing broken links and debugging macros.
• Create better visibility of likely operating performance using driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts.
• Import data definitions from sources such as ERP systems so you can build models in days, not months.
• Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich built-in functions.
• Manage the solution without the need for arcane programming languages or scripting. No IT input is required.
• Quickly explore data, evaluate models, test assumptions and compare current performance with historical actuals and external benchmarks using drill-down and multidimensional cube slicing-and-dicing.
• Enable greater participation, collaboration and commitment with user-friendly Web browser and familiar Microsoft® Excel® interfaces.

IBM Cognos® TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets.

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.

• A multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine provides exceptionally fast performance for analyzing complex and sophisticated models, large data sets and even streamed data.
• A full range of enterprise planning software requirements is supported-from high-performance, on-demand profitability analysis, financial analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units.
• Personal scenarios created with advanced personalization enable an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.
• Best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting can become part of your enterprise planning process.
• Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.
• Managed contribution makes it possible to assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations, quickly consistently and automatically.
• Integrated scorecarding and reporting - the complete picture from goal setting and planning, to measuring progress and reporting-is possible with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.
• Total control over planning, budgeting and forecasting processes is provided to Finance and lines of business.
• A choice of interfaces-Microsoft® Excel®, Cognos TM1 Web and the Cognos TM1 Contributor client-allows you to work with your preferred look and feel.

IBM Cognos® 8 Controller is financial consolidation software that supports the complete close, consolidate, report process-all in one solution. It automates your close process with a full suite of financial consolidation software that is operated and managed by the office of finance. Deliver a complete portfolio of financial results, create financial and management reports, and perform analysis on an integrated business intelligence platform.

• Prepare financial information in a centralized environment for accurate, auditable financial results and end-to-end control of the close process.
• Consolidate thousands of accounts into a common chart-of-accounts structure.
• Evaluate results for multiple countries, currencies and legal entities, each with its own accounting policies intact.
• Put finance professionals in control with self-service reporting and analysis.
• Empower the CFO with an enterprise view of key financial ratios and metrics.
• Provide financial transparency and support cost effective, sustainable compliance with IFRS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and emerging regulations.
• Meet the needs of managers and regulators with more than 200 pre-configured, standard reports.
• Support better planning and forecasting with consolidated management data based on a clear link between statutory and management consolidation.
• Deliver financial reports enterprise-wide through integration with IBM Cognos TM1 and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

IBM Cognos® 8 BI delivers the complete range of BI capabilities - Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards, and Scorecards -- on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA).

You can deliver the complete range of BI capabilities with the flexibility of modular deployment and proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users. IBM Cognos® 8 BI lets business users move among BI capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.

• Build reports, OLAP cubes, dashboards and scorecards using all data sources.
• Proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Modular deployment lets you meet immediate user needs and expand or modify as needed.
• Reporting - IBM Cognos Reporting provides you with complete reporting coverage, advanced report authoring capabilities that match user needs, and a collaborative workflow environment that operates on a proven, web service architecture.
• Analysis - enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Robust, easy to use, and easy to deploy, IBM Cognos Analysis lets you explore and analyze large volumes of data covering all dimensions of the business, whether stored in OLAP or dimensionally aware relational sources.
• Scorecarding - User IBM Cognos Scorecards to link initiatives and projects to strategy, with metrics and strategy maps. Scorecards helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets, Use the same scorecard metrics to drive enterprise planning for integrated performance management.
• Dashboards - Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together. IBM Cognos 8 GO! Dashboard delivers dynamic and customizable dashboarding capabilities that enable end user to quickly create and personalize their dashboard from trusted IBM Cognos assets with drag-and-drop ease.
• Events and alerts - Events and alerts go beyond the basic notification functionality provided in other product to automate the decision-making process, launch business processes, and integrate with Business Process Management (BPM). Throughout the event life cycle, events and alerts continue to monitor and notify, ensuring that all relevant players and systems take appropriate action at the right time.
• Business Viewpoint - Empower the business to own the dimensions, hierarchies and attributes for performance management. IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint provides the business users an easy to use interface for them to create, maintain, govern and share their views for performance management. IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint is a collaborative, workflow-oriented business process that manages the changes to the dimensions related to how enterprises analyze and manage their business users are given the responsibility to manage dimensions in their areas of domain responsibility. By using workflows, proposed changes and additions to dimensions are approved and validated before being distributed throughout the enterprise. Business Viewpoint also gives IT the confidence that any changes are put through a governance cycle and approved by the appropriate stewards before being publishes as the shared common view.