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IBM Planning Analytics

Automate your planning, budgeting, and forecasting process

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How to get more from your data than ever before?

IBM Planning Analytics is an AI-infused integrated planning solution to break free from the limits of manual planning. You can quickly create more accurate plans for financial operations, sales, supply chain, forecasts, and more in a single platform.

Digicode offers a complete suite of services, from consultation to implementation and deployment to support, to ensure you access analytics on demand, anytime, anywhere.

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Streamline collaboration

Break down silos and synchronize planning across the organization.

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Save money and cost

Reduce budgeting and forecasting time by 63% and save money.

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Accelerate your planning with AI

Automated model creation, NLP, and cognitive help.

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Deploy where you need it

On premises, on cloud, or as a hybrid option.

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    Our Services

    Digicode offers expert-led IBM Planning Analytics Services for fast deployment, ongoing support, cost-effective solutions and hassle-free migration.

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    Planned Analytics

    Cognos Analytics

    Connect your data with IBM Cognos Analytics to drive forecasting and actionable insights. It delivers the next level of business intelligence that interprets intent and guides enterprises to faster results using a scalable and proven solution for reporting.

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    Managed Services

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    IBM Cloud Pak

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    Migration and Upgradation

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    Solution Implementation

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    Model Optimization

    Learn more about IBM Planning Analytics

    Do much more than just planning

    IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is a web-based interface that provides full modeling, reporting, and administrative capabilities. Use Planning Analytics.

    Workspace to:

    • build a model of your business
    • view, analyze, edit, and chart your Planning Analytics data
    • build private sandboxes where you can explore unlimited ‘what-if’ scenarios

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    Top Features of IBM Planning Analytics Services

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      Gain real-time forward-looking insights with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson

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      Perform a what-if analysis or test business assumptions

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      Choose a deployment to fit your individual business needs – cloud, on-premise or hybrid

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      Leverage your MS Excel skills as the solution offers all capabilities with built-in functions

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      Plan an interactive workspace that helps you link operational tactics to financial plans

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      Automate planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analysis

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      Access dashboards and published reports from any device – smartphones, tablets, iPad and laptops

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      Collaborate at the speed of Now

    What you get as a result

    IBM Planning Analytics is an integrated platform that helps uncover insights directly from your data, forecast outcomes based on evolving trends, and perform granular, what-if scenario analysis to test alternate assumptions. You are thus able to create timely, reliable & accountable plans that put insight into action, expedite decision-making, and can be communicated using compelling visualizations.

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    Flexible and Scalable

    You can start using cloud-based Planning Analytics with a small team, and it can scale to the world’s largest companies.

    IBM Cloud

    IBM’s cloud is the largest corporate cloud offering and hosts many enterprise applications.

    Security

    Your data can be loaded securely from your local ERP. Once in the cloud, it is governed by the industry’s most demanding security protocols and standards with IBM.

    Agility & Flexibility

    Why compromise?

    You can choose between fast deployment and powerful analytics. Further, you can change your models quickly as your business environment changes. Become more agile and prepared for the future.

    Increased efficiency

    The platform automates many of the manual processes involved in planning, budgeting, and forecasting, which can save time and reduce errors.

    Foresight

    Plan with Confidence

    Combine the planning excellence from TM1 with predictive analytics from Watson Analytics for smarter forward-looking decision-making.

    Finance Leadership

    Guide your organisation with a finance-owned, self-service planning environment, to which your whole company can contribute and provide finance with the tools they need to navigate the business in the right direction.

    Digicode – IBM Analytics Partner Our Benefits.

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      Proven expertise in IBM Planning Analytics Services for various industries

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      Dedicated consulting approach with top-notch IBM partners and cutting-edge technologies

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      Cost-efficient solutions that are delivered on time, every time

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      Specialized solutions for businesses looking for digital transformation

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      Support for small, mid and large enterprises to ready their data for AI and the multi-cloud world

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      Best-practice deployment of IBM Planning Analytics services for your unique environment

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      Robust, enterprise-grade support to ensure the continued success of your IBM platform

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    Plan for anything, be ready for everything with IBM Planning Analytics Services

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    FAQ

    • What are IBM Planning Analytics Services?

      IBM Planning Analytics is the name of the latest release of IBM Cognos TM1. With IBM Planning Analytics with Watson and IBM Cognos Analytics, businesses can save time and costs, optimize forecasts, plan continuously, streamline collaboration, and quickly scale without impacting performance. There are two versions of the solutions – a cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) model and a planning analytics local version deployed on-premise using your own IT infrastructure.

    • How does IBM Planning Analytics differ for the local vs cloud versions?

      The Planning Analytics for Cloud is a SaaS version that includes Cognos Analytics and Watson Analytics. In addition, the applications offer enhanced reporting features for better predictive analytics. Planning Analytics Local has new versions of the pre-existing Cognos TM1 as features – TM1 server, TM1 Web and Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX). Depending on your business requirements, you can choose from the local or cloud versions, and Digicode will help with the deployment in either case.

    • Will the Planning Analytics run on my existing hardware?

      If you’re opting for Planning Analytics Local, most of the existing features of TM1 will run without any changes to your server. These include Performance Modeler, TM1 Web and Perspectives.

    • What are the most compelling reasons to choose IBM Planning Analytics with Watson?

      IBM Planning Analytics with Watson enables accelerated planning and forecasting cycles. It also promotes better collaboration across the organization with agile planning in the Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) solution. IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is a flexible, fast and AI-powered solution that can be deployed on the cloud, on-premise, as a hybrid model, or on IBM Cloud Pak for Data. It enables small and large organizations to drive better process efficiency and delivers the foresight required to steer business performance in the right direction. In addition, the solution has been praised for ease of use by customers and analysts.

      Along with automating manual tasks, it also helps leaders uncover new insights directly from their data. The customizable user interface can be deployed to Finance, Operational and other departmental users across the enterprise. Other benefits include multi-dimensional analysis, interactive and guided planning, advanced self-servicing modelling, scorecards and dashboards and predictive forecasting.

    • What is a Planning Analytics Workspace?

      Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) is a browser-based module suitable for data inputs, reporting and analysis. The drag-and-drop functionality allows users to create high-quality graphical and numerical reports.

    • Do you offer support for Cloud Migration in IBM Planning and Analytics?

      As businesses increase their cloud investment to drive the business forward, cloud adoption is integral to optimizing IBM Planning and Analytics services. Our migration support allows your business to improve inefficiencies, be more agile and deliver high stability and flexibility. At Digicode, we offer complete support for cloud migration. Talk to our cloud migration consultants to know more.

    • Do I have to upgrade my infrastructure for IBM Cognos Analytics?

      Customers who want to move to the latest version of TM1 need to upgrade to Planning Analytics, which will incorporate the latest TM1 Software. In the background for Planning Analytics, IBM keeps the web interface up to date, so you don’t have to do much. The upgrades to the Controller, TM1 database, ETL and calculation engine are planned by Digicode with our customers, and we will contact you to arrange a suitable timing for the upgrade.