IBM Enterprise Planning

IBM Business Partner

Réiteach has implemented IBM Cognos Planning to help many of Ireland’s leading companies develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently, for even the most complex business models.

Cognos Planning offers everything you need to establish a foundation for best in-class performance. Owned by Finance, it helps define goals and creates a clear-cut strategy for excellence.

This is a fully integrated, state–of-the-art, highly scalable solution allows you access current actual data to assess fiscal performance and proceed from what-is to evaluate what-if scenarios that are critical to forecasting future performance.

Highlights

 Establishes a foundation for best-in-class performance by helping you define goals and create a clear-cut strategy for excellence

 Integrates operational and financial planning on demand for immediate visibility into resource requirements and future business performance

 Helps you build budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently – with high participation from across the enterprise – for true predictability and accountability

 Makes in easier for Finance and business units to devise, compare and assess alternative business scenarios, conditions, cases and assumptions in minutes – without IT intervention.

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Capabilities

 Flexible and integrated workflow

 Develop linked models that reflect your business details

 Import enterprise data to develop effective plans

 Adopt best practices such as driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts

 Quickly assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input consistently and automatically from systems and staff from all divisions and locations

 Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich, built-in functions

 Rapidly transfer data for reporting in downstream databases and OLAP tools

A full range of enterprise planning software requirements is supported—from high-performance, on-demand profitability analysis, financial analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units.

Personal scenarios created with advanced personalization enable an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.

Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.

Managed contribution makes it possible to assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations, quickly consistently and automatically.

Total control over planning, budgeting and forecasting processes is provided to Finance and lines of business.