DRIVE best practices

Driver-based planning streamlines your budgeting.

Once you’ve addressed the initial needs of your planning and budgeting process, you can begin to make finance a more active partner in the operational management of the enterprise.

Best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts let you respond to changing business conditions with greater speed and flexibility. Cognos solutions enable you to:

• Alter plans and adapt forecasts linked to business drivers at market speed
• Drive greater accountability across the organization
• Improve the reliability of plans and forecasts

The result is more reliable decision-support, which enables a more confident understanding of actual performance and a forward-looking view of the business.

Additional Resources:

IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Agility to Transform Your Business

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Learn how to improve your performance through planning, budgeting, and forecasting with IBM Cognos 8 Planning.

Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution: Considerations for Software Evaluators

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This handbook provides a list of key factors that you should consider as you evaluate competing enterprise planning solutions.

IBM Cognos TM1 Demo

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Walk through the five phases of the business analytics life cycle with IBM Cognos TM1; and see how IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer provides you with on-the-fly insight.

Driving Performance with IBM Cognos 8 Planning: What is planned gets Executed

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Learn how to achieve superior enterprise performance.