IBM Cognos

Develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently

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

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.

Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich built-in functions.

Manage the solution without the need for 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

With managed contribution, quickly assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations consistently and automatically.

Because Cognos Planning is Cognos 10 Ready, you can link to reporting and dashboards to complete your planning process.

Read the white paper Transforming spreadsheets: planning, budgeting and forecasting for midsize companies

To learn how IBM Cognos Planning applications can help you, call 703-340-8702 or email us at info@rollingforecast.com