Profiles in Planning Research Study

Are you interested in applying resources more efficiently, coordinating activities more effectively, and responding to changing conditions with more agility? In short, are you interested in improving performance?

Profiles in Planning, an independent Ventana Research study, shows how eight leading companies are currently using Cognos Enterprise Planning to dramatically improve their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.

Beyond the elimination of typical spreadsheet-based problems, Ventana research also found out that these companies were able to:

• Control expenses more effectively and rationally during challenging economic times
• Achieve greater accountability through higher participation in the planning and budgeting process
• Increase agility to adapt to changing conditions
• Deepen visibility into the business to improve decision-making
• Ensure managers use resources effectively by applying internal benchmarking
• Enhance the accuracy of their planning and budgeting process

These eight companies were able to take an inconsequential, time-consuming, nearly universally loathed exercise, and transform it into a value-generating process.

Download the Executive Summary to read about the overall findings of the study, or explore the complete Profiles in Planning study which includes detailed case studies on all 8 participating companies.