IBM Cognos TM1 delivers integrated solution for the most important tasks of Corporate Performance Management – planning, reporting and analysis. IBM Cognos TM1 empowers business to work with multidimensional data as quick as thought! Tons of data and extensive and complex business models are no threat to IBM Cognos TM1. Everything runs in real-time and in familiar user interfaces – Microsoft Excel and web browser. Integrated solution of IBM Cognos TM1 helps you to build a solid base for higher performance of the whole company.

Benefits of IBM TM1

• Common base for both metadata and data – easily managed and maintained, a single reliable source
• Multidimensional view of data – change the view of data in real-time
• Standard user interfaces – use only MS Excel or your web browser, which are both familiar to everybody
• Customizable and configurable workflow – the whole company is involved in the information flow and follow up the feed-back
• Complex performance management – integration of planning, reporting and analytical tools
• Integration – integrate extremely fast multidimensional Cognos TM1 with leading reporting and analytical tools of Cognos BI
• Business rules – define business rules for treating the data
• Personalization – make your own versions, scenarios, dimension subsets, home pages and more

Features of IBM Cognos TM1

• Speed and flexibility – real-time calculations, what-if and ad-hoc analysis, data refresh and write-back
• Security – complex management of user access based on roles and single-sign-on capability
• Scalability – it is possible to operate multiple servers with different applications on different places
• In-memory – the whole multidimensional database runs in the physical memory so everything is incredibly fast
• Real-time – both data refresh and calculations run real-time
• Read/write – not only data reading is supported, but also writing data back to database is no problem

Basic Components

• Multidimensional database
  • TM1 Server – multidimensional OLAP in-memory database
• (Meta)data tools
  • TM1 Architect/Perspectives – application for creating models (dimensions, cubes, processes, applications)
  • TM1 Turbo Integrator – connection to many data sources (relational db, MS Excel, txt…)
  • SAP BW & Net Weaver Connector – connection to SAP BW
• User interfaces
  • TM1 Excel Interface – delivers full integration with MS Excel, allows viewing and manipulating data and metadata and building of active worksheets with extra TM1 functions directly from MS Excel
  • TM1 Web – allows using TM1 applications in a web browser, i.e. employing MS Excel active worksheets without actually having MS Excel installed on the machine
  • TM1 Contributor – enter and visualize multidimensional data using drag&drop
  • TM1 Executive Viewer - allows the business users to access the OLAP database for ad-hoc analysis and distributed reporting in a stylish and easy-to-use web interface
• Workflow
  • TM1 Workflow – delivers highly customizable and configurable workflow, which may be used both in MS Excel and web browser