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IBM Planning Analytics Overview

What is IBM Planning Analytics?

IBM Planning Analytics is an AI-powered integrated planning solution that automates your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes enabling real-time analysis and seamless collaboration. Eliminate inefficient and error-prone manual planning processes by automating data integration, analysis, and collaboration for greater agility across the business. For finance and business operations leaders from Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Marketing, Sales and beyond who need to eliminate inefficient and error-prone manual planning processes. Automate data integration, analysis, and collaboration for greater agility across the business. - Integrate financial and operational plans based on a governed source of truth, with a single license. - Track, analyze and communicate financial performance with interactive dashboards and personalized reports and a native spreadsheet experience - Enhance the speed and accuracy of forecasts with easy-to-use, built-in AI - Increase participation in the planning and decision-making process by lowering the skill barrier with a generative AI assistant Bring collaborative, AI-powered business planning to your organization starting at $825/month for 5 users.

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Product Description

IBM Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1 automates your planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. It offers the full functionality of spreadsheets while eliminating manual tasks to drive efficiency.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

- IBM Planning Analytics' TM1 database enables the rapid creation and analysis of sophisticated financial models with near real-time calculations, all while maintaining strict control and governance. Its flexibility supports interactive planning and analysis, scaling effortlessly to thousands of users and terabytes of data, making it the ideal solution for integrated business planning.

- With real-time native spreadsheet integration, you can continue using full spreadsheet capabilities while harnessing AI-infused advanced analytics within a governed database with write-back functionality.

- Unlimited what-if scenarios and built-in AI forecasting at no extra cost - without the need for technical skills.

- IBM Planning Analytics leverages generative AI to improve productivity by simplifying multi-step tasks, explaining data, and identifying insights.

- IBM Planning Analytics can be deployed as a fully managed SaaS solution (AWS and Azure), an on-premises solution, or a hybrid solution and it comes at a predictable price.


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Analytics helps in managing and analyzing the data. It simplifies the Budgeting and forecasting. It also helps in creating the report with raw data...
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4.5 out of 5
"Amazing Planning Tool"
I liked the Real Time Analytics and the interactive dashboard.
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"IBM Planning Analytics: A Comprehensive Review"
It is one of the most powerful forecasting and budgeting tools in the market right now. It excels in providing advanced forecasting, budgeting and ...
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IBM Planning Analytics Demo - IBM Planning Analytics - Bill of Materials
The Bill of Materials model enables FP&A, Procurement, Product Managers or Marketing professionals to forecast and understand the impacts of cost changes in materials, material mix, and conversely to adjust or re-forecast product mix or prices based on those changes.
IBM Planning Analytics Demo - IBM Planning Analytics - Workforce Planning
This sample workforce planning model includes several assumptions for the Job type, job code, benefits and merit percent. Planning data is made instantly available for departmental reporting by account.
IBM Planning Analytics Demo - IBM Planning Analytics - Expense Planning
This model helps you to plan, analyze and explore expenses across cost centers and currencies to ensure accuracy and consistency, and to understand the opportunities for improving spending performance.
IBM Planning Analytics Demo - IBM Planning Analytics - Profitability Analysis
This model helps you accurately identify profitability across the enterprise. Plan, analyze and explore profitability across your departments using business drivers to ensure accuracy and consistency to understand the opportunities for improving profitability.
IBM Planning Analytics Demo - IBM Planning Analytics - Gross Margin Planning
This model helps you quickly analyze and plan your sales and margins across multiple dimensions such as products and geographies. You could explore the performance of your business, determine best and worst performers, adjust the levers and see the impact in real time and plan future periods by c...
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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

It is the modeling of reports, creating bases as we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Sometimes slowness in the update process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the moment we don't have any problems, but the tool helps a lot to track the results on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

IBM PA is based on the TM1 engine which is very fast and flexible to use. The front end is very intiuative to use for the users. You can build complex Financial, Reporting and consolidation model in PA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

I have not come across any downsides of IBM PA as it has taclked all the complex solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM PA basically solves all the Financial reports in Planning and Budgeting which is required by comapnies. It is very easy to look at in Workspace for Top executives. It has benefit mostly all our clients to come out of excel world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush P.
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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

I liked the Real Time Analytics and the interactive dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

There is no downside from my point of view but IBM can provide it with little low price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping to forecast the future demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

A very practical system for creating views for analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Quantity of export, which makes the analyses a bit difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Agility in the assembly of reports and dashboards for analysis and decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

the way we managed to consolidate the data quickly and achieve the expected results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Slowness when several people are using it and it freezes multiple times during use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

does not have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sanaullah K.
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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

The visuals are clean and easy to understand, making it simple for users to track the most important metrics and other things like exploring trends and insights in real time. it helps streamline decision-making since everything you need is in a clear and user-friendly format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Its cost. it can be expensive, especially for small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping us solve the problem of managing and coordinating our sales and operations planning in a more streamlined way. Before, it was challenging to keep everything organized and updated, especially with changes in demand or inventory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

Installing and configuring IBM Planning Analytics is straightforward across any platform. Its seamless integration with other applications ensures a smooth and excellent customer experience.

IBM Support is quick on all P1 cases during production environment installations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Integrating Cognos Analytics on AIX servers can be challenging, requiring multiple changes and additions to configuration files. Additionally, manually terminating cube refresh processes can be time-consuming, and occasionally, it becomes necessary to forcefully kill process IDs directly from the terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly related to planning and budgeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

It is a robust tool that can handle enormous amounts of data fast and efficiently. It is extremely flexible so it can handle any business rules and cases to provide the business with a tool that will give them exaclty what they need in order to make decisions.

It is also equipped with different user interface options so different types of users can get the best and most appropriate experience with the toll in order to do their jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

Flexibility if not used properly can be an issue. So, modelers need to be careful in their design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a consultant that helps businesses implement Planning Analytics to solve their challenges and improve business performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

I like this IBM software for consolidations and financial planning. I really like the analysis planning, simple reports, its system adminsitrator and its security. I also love that this software demonstrates agility in networking and that it is easy to work with calculations and to be able to simulate different scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

The tool is good but I wish it were more modern and simply more versatile to find the functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems that IBM Planning Analytics solves focus on reporting, especially those related to finance for planning and forecasting and improving budgets, obtaining good visualization, and providing security and improving productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Planning Analytics?

Being able to see the raw data has created so many opportunities for improvement all while being driven by AI to help in making those big decisions. The Real time analysis makes things a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Planning Analytics?

It can be a complex program to understand right off the bat as there is a lot of features and information to absorb. But once you get used to it, it was a lot easier to pick up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Planning Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us with our sales planning across territories and where our best fit of resources is. It also provides an in depth look into sales rep performance so we can see exactly where we need to make adjustments or where to put more suppport to help push. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.