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COGNOS 8 PLANNINGcara_seda
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For organizations looking to improve both operational and financial planning, Cognos 8 Planning provides unprecedented power and flexibility to turn sophisticated strategy into discrete plans, budgets, and forecasts.

Cognos 8 Planning is a finance-managed solution that provides real-time visibility into resource requirements and future business results. It supports best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts, and serves as the cornerstone for enterprise-wide performance management.

Overview:cara_teckovana

Integrated planning software helps you achieve higher performance across the enterprise.

    • Define your goals and communicate your strategy for achieving best-in-class status.
    • Replace rigid, annual budgeting with continuous planning—daily, weekly, or monthly.
    • Connect operations and finance—Build plans that maximize operational effectiveness and inform both operational and financial plans.
    • Engage the organization—Users enter data in their own business language instead of unfamiliar financial terms—making it easy to model key business drivers.
    • Gain greater flexibility—Create your own business rules and structures, then modify your model as the organization evolves.
    • Leverage your investment in applications from Oracle and SAP by integrating planning with Cognos reporting and analysis.
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    • Finance-owned solution with easy modeling language that can be developed by financial analysts without IT involvement.
    • Scales to thousands of participants to support top-down and bottom-up planning and forecasting.
    • Supports best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts that speed planning cycles and increase accuracy.
    • Multidimensional slicing-and-dicing, drill-down, and the exclusive break-back feature help you explore data fully and efficiently.
    • Planners can attach any file type to a cell, model, or submission of a forecast to communicate the rationale and policies behind plans and forecasts.
    • A high performance SAP BW connector moves large volumes of data to meet the needs of complex planning solutions.
    • Part of an integrated but separable performance management system delivering planning, reporting, scorecarding, dashboards, analysis and financial consolidation.
    • Distributed administration shares the responsibility for planning processes across functions, geographies and business units within a secure, unified planning environment.
    • Flexible deployment with Web browser or Microsoft Excel interface offers all the advantages of a dedicated enterprise solution with the familiarity and convenience of a spreadsheet.
    • Flexible security with single sign-on provides appropriate access to each user.
ANALYST - Modelling and data analysiscara_teckovana
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  • Model creation in couple of days, NOT in months
  • Import data definitions from other resources (ERP, DWH, CRM systems, etc.)
  • NO programming – model can be created and deployed without IT department.
  • Change business logic and principles quickly and easily in real time
  • Elimination of non-value added process activities like number gathering and consolidation, error finding and correction etc.
  • Connection of spreadsheets with planning system
  • "Break-back" helps users analyze "what-if" effects across time periods, product lines, or other parameters, with instantaneous feedback
CONTRIBUTOR - Distribution and budget contributioncara_teckovana
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  • GO production process - easy transfer planning models from creation phase to contribution phase
  • … usage widely enforcered standards and system open architecture
  • Easily define access rights for each budget item
  • Interface between access rights and company organization structure
WORKFLOW - Process control
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  • Workflow support of whole planning process
  • Easily define who contribute and who review particular plan items
  • Allow particular contributors add comments with explenation to any item.
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