IBM Cognos TM1 Business Consulting

In today’s global and competitive business environment, companies not only need to define the direction of their business, but they also need resourceful and insightful analysis to support the decision making process, and a highly flexible business analytics solution across the enterprise — from manufacturing, sales, and service, to finance, human resources, and marketing, all the way up to the boardroom

IBM Cognos® TM1 can monitor real-time change, drill down, and provide timely insight to improve decision making. The platform for TM1 is flexible and will easily expand to grow with the business.  As a versatile application, TM1 supports strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, report and analysis.

Some of the key benefits of TM1 include:

• Build from a multi-dimensional database to set distinct driver values by product, customer, division, channel, time, etc.;
• Business rules can provide effective assumptions and calculations that monitor key drivers, automatically calculate cost line items, manage workflow and budget approval processes;
• Provide a real-time environment for ‘what-if’ scenario modeling, and viewing changes in reports instantly;
• Capable of complex calculations and multiple scenarios, strong security, and controlling application and data;
• Create a link between budget entries and revenues so that inputs and any effects on the budget can be viewed simultaneously;
• Data is stored and shared centrally, but access can be restricted and based on roles in the enterprise;
• Integration with Excel enables powerful reporting. and
• Users can access reports through the web without client installations.

For more information, on how SIS has help your compnay gain a competitive advantage.  Please refer to our IBM Cognos TM1 Success Stories.