Cognos 8 Planning

Strong and flexible software for continuous business planning.

With IBM Cognos 8 Planning, a business planning software , budgets and forecasts can be created faster and more efficiently.

Create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, controls, indicators and assumptions and use practices such as driver-based planning and forecasting continued to determine resource requirements, operating performance and future business results in real time.

• Take decisions instead of discussing definition and accuracy of spreadsheets with a unified view of planning data related to information and key metrics.
• Evaluate hypothetical scenarios that are important for the business plan, budget development and forecasting of future performance with sophisticated software instead of spreadsheets.
• Eliminate unproductive activities such as figure location of, correction of broken links and debugging macros.
• Have more visibility on operational performance using driver-based planning and continuous forecasting.
• Import data definitions from sources such as ERP systems in order to create models in days rather than months.
• Introduce strength and sophistication to your business models with new integrated functions.
• Manage this solution without using programming languages or complex scripts. No IT involvement is required
• Examine data, evaluate models, test assumptions, and compare current performance with external and real benchmarks with detailed and multidimensional display.
• Have more participation, collaboration and commitment with a web browser easy to use and with Microsoft Excel interfaces.