Within the IBM Cognos Competence Center, element61 has 30+ years expertise in IBM Cognos TM1, including integration with an existing Cognos Busines Intelligence environment, an existing data warehouse architecture or linking up Cognos TM1 with ERP-systems like SAP and Oracle or a data warehouse infrastructure like SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) or Microsoft Analysis Services (MSAS).

IBM Cognos TM1 provides a complete planning, analytics and reporting environment for the critical company-wide performance management activity driven by Finance. It supports a full range of business requirements: from high-performance, real-time customer and profitability analysis and flexible modelling to enterprise contribution for financial and operational targets for a broad range of usersfrom manufacturing, sales and service to finance, human resources and marketing.

The core of TM1 is a real-time, in-memory, interactive multidimensional OLAP database, extended with accompanying application products that support typical planning, analysis and reporting capabilities such as workflow so that users can contribute to a budget or components in excel or via the web. Via the web a user can approach TM1 via TM1Web or Planning Analytics.

IBM Planning Analytics also provides self-service analytics for business users and flexible, multidimensional modeling for your finance team. Starting from a customizable planning workspace, IBM Planning Analytics discovers insights automatically directly from your data and empowers users with the speed, agility and foresight they need to deliver better business results. It is available as SAAS hosted by IBM or on premise since end of 2016.

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