IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2

The Next Step in Planning-Led Performance Management

Forward-thinking Finance organizations have long recognized the unequalled capabilities for planning, budgeting, and forecasting embodied in IBM Cognos 8 Planning. Now, Cognos is taking those capabilities a step further with the launch of IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2.

Owned by Finance and designed for companies with even the most complex business models, IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 integrates operational and financial planning in real time for immediate visibility into resource requirements and future business performance.

This new version features better integration. And it includes a wide range of enhancements that enable Finance to automate and transform their performance management processes:


IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 input validations help facilitate corporate policies.
  • Adopts Cognos 8 Platform Services— Framework services make Cognos software plug-and-play. Applications share a common portal, administration, security, content store, and metadata model, saving your IT organization both time and resources.
  • Improved Data Access—Through Cognos Framework Manager, IBM Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 joins a common infrastructure across all Cognos solutions for scorecarding, planning, and business intelligence, thus reducing maintenance and total cost of ownership.
  • Certified SAP BW Data Connector, IBM Cognos 8 BI Data Sources and Assets—This integration means you can adapt your deployment as your infrastructure changes, such as when you add new ERP vendors or IT environments. You can extend Cognos capabilities to other areas of your organization as your needs evolve.
  • Enhanced Planning Productivity
    • Input Validations—Input rules reflecting corporate policies can now be enforced during the planning submission process, thereby increasing accuracy and speeding planning cycle times.
    • Attachments—Plan participants can communicate their forecasting rationale by attaching files at the cell, column or tab level.
    • Applications Life Cycle Support—Cognos planning version 8.2 now supports broader IBM Cognos 8 BI deployment, which eases the testing and deployment of rich planning solutions that span the IBM Cognos 8 BI product suite.
  • Improved Integration with Controller and BI—information from IBM Cognos 8 Controller version 8.2 can be published to support models in IBM Cognos 8 Planning and the entire IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence infrastructure—including query, analysis, reporting, scorecarding and event management, supported by Web, Excel, mobile and search.

Best of all, IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 extends these rich capabilities while maintaining a low total cost of ownership. Watch Cognos.com for more news about IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2.

For Finance Leaders

What IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 Offers You


IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 offers important benefits for key members of your finance team—and for the CIO, who needs to ensure compatibility with existing IT investments:

  • For Corporate Planners: IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 enables the corporate planner to improve communication and increase the accuracy of planning, data collection, analysis and reporting. Planning cycle times are reduced while forecast accuracy and participation are increased.
  • For the CFO: IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 reduces risk and provides an enterprise view of key financial plans and forecasts. Greater visibility improves strategic decision making across the organization.
  • For the CIO: IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 allows the CIO to leverage current IT investments while ensuring that centralized systems meet the demand for secure and reliable data. And it offers the opportunity for performance management standardization from a single vendor, with enterprise planning and enterprise business intelligence across a single architecture and platform.

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