Define your goals — Create a clear-cut strategy for achieving best-in-class status.

Plan for performance — Turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets for employees and external partners.

Connect operations and finance — Build strategic plans that maximize operational effectiveness and inform both operational and financial plans.

Engage the organization — Provide real-time feedback to planning process participants.

Greater flexibility — Realign plans as conditions change.

Understand results — Manage performance with industry-leading Cognos reporting and analysis

Predict and Drive Company Performance through Enterprise Planning

Cognos® Planning

Cognos Enterprise Planning provides the power to model, forecast, analyze, and report on your company’s key operational processes, manage asynchronous business cycles, and reliably translate plans and forecasts into a single, cohesive, and accurate view of financial performance. With Cognos Enterprise Planning you can review key performance metrics, explore options for taking action, and revise plans and forecasts with uncommon power and unsurpassed speed.

Most complete enterprise planning solution.

Scalable to include thousands of participants.

Built for continuous planning with daily, weekly, or monthly updates.

Synchronizes and manages connected enterprise plans that link operational effectiveness and financial performance.

Driver-based planning reflects cross-enterprise business activity, not just finance.

Deployment flexibility with Web browser or Microsoft Excel interface.

Distributed administration spreads responsibility for maintaining and supporting enterprise plans.

Fully corporate performance management-(CPM) enabled with integrated reporting, metrics, and analytic scorecards.