IBM Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos TM1 is uniquely functional software for automating planning tasks in holdings, companies with a distributed structure, banking and insurance companies, government and budgetary institutions, and manufacturing enterprises. IBM Cognos TM1 offers the maximum possible, complete, dynamic, and easily customizable planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycle.
With IBM Cognos TM1, you can analyze data and business processes in real time, in virtually any dimension, using budget and forecast data to make informed, relevant, and balanced decisions based on the information obtained.
IBM Cognos TM1 is a modern, integrated solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, data consolidation, and financial reporting. IBM Cognos TM1 has unique capabilities when creating and comparing various models and business scenarios in today’s constantly evolving and changing business environment.
IBM Cognos TM1 allows building and analyzing business models of any complexity, and the in-memory technology used in the system guarantees maximum software performance in real time when processing huge amounts of data (in billions of rows).
Using IBM Cognos TM1, you can build reliable forecasts and plans based on real-time information; analyze and model planning requirements for the entire company and use the information to develop an action plan that allows achieving the best results in the minimum amount of time.
Using IBM Cognos TM1 allows you to easily build a business model, focusing on and taking into account the specifics of the company’s business processes. In the IBM Cognos TM1 Architect, you can create and modify business models by adding new departments, products, metrics logic, restructuring accounting centers, etc. The budget management model created in IBM Cognos TM1 will evolve and change along with the business. The IBM Cognos TM1 system is easy to operate, so there is no need to involve the IT department in the process of building and modifying business models.
In IBM Cognos TM1, you can work with volumes of complex multidimensional data in real time: view, edit, analyze. This ensures better and more efficient planning, budgeting, modeling of various scenarios, and processing of analytical information. There is also the ability to create forecasts to respond to a changing business environment, analyze profitability, sales figures, and price-volume variance, and optimize complex, constantly changing data with the ability to obtain results in real time.
Advantages of IBM Cognos® TM1
- High performance when working with large data sets and large-scale models.
- Personalized planning and analysis tools within planning management to identify causes of performance decline and determine business development factors.
- Reduction of planning cycles by 75%. Generating reports in minutes, not days.
- Flexible modeling environment designed primarily for business, requiring no programming skills or IT specialists.
- The implemented system is usually the responsibility of the Finance Department. IT department involvement in the system’s operation is minimal.
- Supports interfaces: Microsoft Excel, TM1 Web, and the TM1 Contributor client.
Capabilities of IBM Cognos® TM1
- 64-bit, multidimensional, in-memory OLAP technology enables rapid processing of large data sets and complex models of data arrays or streams;
- The solution supports the full scope of any required functionality to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting in holdings, companies with a distributed structure, banking and insurance companies, government and budgetary institutions, and manufacturing enterprises. Provides fast data processing, financial analysis, profitability analysis, and modeling of various business scenarios.
- Availability of all Enterprise Performance Management applications of the IBM Cognos TM1 platform. It is possible to implement performance management, complex reporting and analysis, and obtain a transparent picture of the business, from company goals and plans to actual data and reporting.
- Users can create and analyze any number of scenario variants to respond in a timely manner to changing business and external environment requirements.
- IBM Cognos TM1 employs best practices and cutting-edge capabilities, such as rolling forecasting and driver-based planning.
- Supports information collection from applications used by users and the enterprise to automate the analysis process. To prevent errors when automating information processing, special solutions are used that can reduce budget creation time by 75%.
- Easy access to data and model design allow adapting company business processes into standard analysis formats.
- Executives and financial managers can fully control planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
It is possible to work with application interfaces: Microsoft® Excel®, Cognos TM1 Web, or Cognos TM1 Contributor.
IBM Cognos®Express
The integrated IBM CognosExpress solution is specially designed for business intelligence (BI) and planning for mid-sized companies.
IBM Cognos Express enables enterprises to acquire an essential set of tools for planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis, including dashboards and scorecards, at an affordable price.
IBM Cognos Express is a pre-configured system that is easy to deploy, operate, and support.
IBM Cognos Express consists of three blocks:
| ExpressReporter | Building reporting forms of any complexity level, configuring scorecards. |
| ExpressAdvisor | Business analytics and scenario analysis. |
| ExpressXcelerator | Budget management, forecasting, reporting forms, and user dashboards. |
Capabilities of IBM Cognos®Express
Reporting
IBM Cognos Express (ExpressReporter) includes built-in tools for configuring reports of any type and complexity (financial, operational, transactional, special). The data sources can be most multidimensional data storage systems, as well as flat files (Excel, DBF, CSV, etc.). Reports are developed by both end-users and report authors (complex reports with filters, specific queries, etc.). Drill Up/Down technology (drilling through a hierarchy) can be applied. The user can receive the necessary report directly in the browser using HTML, PDF, or Excel formats, and duplicate the information to a corporate email.
Business Analysis
Responding to the dynamics and pace of changing business conditions is the main capability a company gains using IBM Cognos Express (ExpressAdviser). Built-in OLAP analysis tools using in-memory technology allow working with huge amounts of data in real time, across any necessary dimensions, applying mathematical formulas and calculations, and using visualizations of the obtained information in the form of charts and graphs for clarity. This enables the business to track any dynamic changes in key areas of the company’s activities and make informed, balanced, and timely decisions.
Budget Management / Forecasting
IBM Cognos Express (ExpressXcelerator) is a flexible tool for automating, building, accelerating, and centralizing the budget process. Using standard Microsoft Excel or a web interface, users can work with planned indicators for their allocated budgets: enter, adjust, approve, and, if necessary, develop scenario analysis.
Dashboards:
A Corporate Portal is used in IBM Cognos Express for convenient viewing of necessary information. The user enters their login and password and gets access to the required reports, charts, etc. Hovering over an object opens a pop-up with all the detailed information about that object. The system’s security policy allows providing individual access to the corporate portal for each user down to a single data cell.
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