EXTEND enterprise-wide

Data from IBM Cognos 8 Planning populates dashboards in IBM Cognos 8 BI.

After you demonstrate the benefits of best-practice planning to your organization, finance is in a strong position to lead positive change and share those benefits with other business-area owners.

At this step, you start to close the loop between financial and operational performance. Cognos, an IBM company, provides consistent, reliable data seamlessly linked and made available to all users. Our solutions enable you to align corporate objectives with operating plans and link market events to operational drivers:  

• Use sales projections to revise revenue plans and update P&L projections.
• Align workforce decisions with corporate objectives.
• Reallocate resources more quickly and intelligently in response to market conditions

You can drive performance with systems that make collaboration, shared objectives, and improved visibility available – and indispensable – to the broader organization.

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.