Planning Analytics

IBM Planning Analytics as a Service is a fully managed, collaborative, enterprise-scalable budgeting, planning, analytics, profitability, modeling and reporting solution deployed on AWS. These applications are supported by the highly available Planning Analytics in memory engine that provides on-demand analytics of complex multidimensional data in real time.

Instantly provision an enterprise planning solution with zero-downtime upgrades and industry-standard SLAs that can scale with your business as you increase data volume, number of users, or planning models without impacting performance. IBM Planning Analytics with Watson allows users to build and change plans based on business processes, illustrating a flexible and intuitive user experience that is built for you with real-world context in mind

Uncover deep insights through robust dashboards. Create scorecards and metrics, including ad-hoc reports and compelling visualizations, to share financial metrics effectively and compare actual results to performance targets for improved financial reporting. Identify trends and drill down into data with built-in reporting and analysis capabilities

Fueled by AI, with IBM Planning Analytics you can forecast outcomes based on evolving trends or predictive insights and perform in-depth, what-if scenario analysis to test alternative assumptions. Create personal sandboxes to compare different scenarios. See the impact of your decisions before making them

Improve operational performance. Make better, more optimal business decisions with direct integration of decision optimization. Amid ever-changing business challenges, Planning Analytics helps you make better decisions that consider how to optimally deploy your resources. Optimize scenarios with complex variables and constraints to create the decision model that can be parameterized and reused over time

Improve the accuracy and speed of your forecasts. With built-in predictive capabilities, you canidentify and assess trends and seasonality patterns in historic values and have the power of algorithmic forecasting in your hands—even without data science skills—for more accurate, consistent, and timely forecasts

Easily manage and govern workflows to ensure a smooth and streamlined planning process. Create customized applications to manage, facilitate, and increase participation and collaboration in your company’s budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

Gain visibility into your data. All users have access to the same data, and trust in a single source of truth. The IBM Planning Analytics with Watson OLAP in-memory database, the Planning Analytics Engine, connects directly to source data and refreshes in real-time.