Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics is an integrated planning solution that uses AI to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting and drive more intelligent workflows.

Built on TM1 , IBM’s powerful calculation engine, this enterprise performance management tool allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning and become the Analytics Hero your business needs. Quickly and easily drive faster, more accurate plans for FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond.

IBM Planning Analytics provides a dynamic, collaborative solution to meet all of your enterprise budgeting and forecasting planning needs, including Strategic Plans, Budgeting, Forecasting, what-if scenario modelling, allocations, activity based costing and profitability analysis. With Microsoft Excel integration and choice of centralized or distributed deployment methods, TM1 revolutionizes comprehensive bottom-up participation in the planning process. The solution can be owned by finance, while business users manage their own work without the need for constant IT support, ensuring the alignment of financial and operational targets in one connected solution.

Planning Analytics allows your organization to consistently deliver timely, reliable plans and forecasts, along with contingency plans. Users (financial and non-financial) can analyze situations where performance begins to deviate from the plan or forecast, drill in to the data (down to transactional level) to examine the financials of the organization by time, geography, product and department. The common platform and ability to easily analyze information via Planning Analytics’ familiar interfaces ensures user adoption and trust in the information provided.

Planning Analytics can be deployed on premise or via a cloud-based deployment.