Cognos TM1

Enterprise planning software for planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis

IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing plans, budgets and forecasts. With Cognos TM1, you can rapidly analyze data and model business requirements for your entire organization and create plans, budgets and forecasts to produce better business results.

Powerful analysis – Create and analyze complex models and forecasts based on large data sets.
Flexible modeling – Choose the interface you prefer and personalize scenarios to fit your needs.
Collaboration with many users – Include information from hundreds of participants in the planning process.

Powerful analysis

A multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine lets you analyze complex, sophisticated models, large data sets and streaming data.
Perform on-demand profitability analysis
Follow best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting.

Flexible modeling

Adapt model design and data access to your specific business processes and present information in familiar formats.
Choose from different interfaces including Microsoft Excel, Cognos TM1 Web and the Cognos TM1 Contributor client.
Create personalized scenarios to explore an unlimited number of alternatives so individuals, teams, and departments can respond faster to changing business conditions.

Collaboration with many users

Assemble information automatically and deploy planning solutions to staff in all departments and locations.
Scale to thousands of participants to support top-down and bottom-up budgeting, planning and forecasting.

Cognos TM1 resources

White paper: Extending Planning and Forecasting with Analytics
Steve Player from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable explains how finance teams can use advanced planning and forecasting to gain insight and make better business decisions.

White paper: Analytics in the Finance Organization
Download this white paper to learn how financial analytics can use data from financial and operational systems to help your managers increase revenue, reduce costs and manage risk.

Demo: Enterprise Planning Solutions Powered by IBM Cognos TM1
View this online demo to see how Cognos TM1 can remove the barriers to effective planning and engage your entire organization in collaborative decision-making.

White paper: Three Capabilities to Fuel Today’s Dynamic Planning and Forecasting
Read this white paper to learn how the ability to analyze information from a large number of contributors can help companies deal with the uncertainty in today’s economy.

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