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Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos TM1 is the world’s best performing multi-dimensional OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) engine. Cognos TM1 provides a complete planning, budgeting and forecasting environment that supports the full range of business requirements.

With high-performance, on-demand financial analytics, flexible modeling and enterprise contribution for a broad range of users, Cognos TM1 helps you develop timely, reliable forecasts, budgets and plans, reducing planning cycles by as much as 75% when compared to other performance management platforms and Excel spreadsheet marts.

Cognos TM1 can ramp up your planning, budgeting and analysis with:

• Exceptionally fast performance for large, sophisticated models and large data sets
• A flexible modeling environment that requires no programming or traditional IT skills
• The scalability and flexibility to start with a single planning application and then expand it for use across your entire enterprise
• A choice of interfaces: Microsoft® Excel®, TM1 Web, Cognos BI and a built-in client for managed participation
• Role-based security that supports multiple users and ensures that users see only those portions of the plan that they need to

Cognos TM1 blends the workflow activities of planning with advanced personalized analysis, adapted to each contributor’s particular plans. While you’re planning, you’re not just viewing plans, but you’re dynamically building your own alternatives, sharing them with your team and using the best scenarios to make informed decisions.

Importantly Cognos TM1 is “Cognos 10 ready”, providing rich options for linking your plans and forecasts with reporting and scorecarding for a complete picture from goal-setting to measuring progress.