IBM Cognos TM1
Fast, easy-to-use analytics for financial performance management
IBM Cognos TM1 provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data.
Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server, IBM Cognos TM1 has a proven track record supporting financial performance management.
IBM Cognos TM1 offers:
 TM1 provides 'speed of thought' response to driver-based what-if scenarios and self-service analysis of multi-dimensional data. |
- Ease of use, thanks to a development environment that enables users to create sophisticated applications with no need for programming or traditional IT skills
- A patented in-memory calculation engine that provides compact data storage and exceptionally fast performance
- Model design and data access that presents business information in familiar formats
- An intuitive, flexible approach, which enables users to easily express complex, multi-dimensional business rules (for example, cost allocation rules which span multiple cost centers or products)
- Built-in data integration capabilities to access IT-managed systems of record
- Strong integration with IBM Cognos 8 Planning, IBM Cognos 8 Controller, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint.
New "Active Forms" Simplify Development
IBM Cognos TM1 9.4 provides new capabilities for TM1-based application development, through "Active Forms." Innovating on TM1's Excel-based application authoring capability, Active Forms provides a number of new or updated capabilities to power users and end-users alike:
- Report rows with asymmetrical drill-down
- Formula-driven row definition
- Intuitive Excel-based formatting
- Action Buttons for navigation and process integration
- Functional parity in both thick and thin client deployment
- Server-side zero suppression
Additional New Features in IBM Cognos TM1 9.4
- Enterprise-Ready Web Deployment - Take advantage of maintenance-free reporting and input template creation for both Excel and Web environments. IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer has moved to an XML format for view definition and rendering, providing an easy way to create programmatic maintenance and deployment routines.
- SOX compliance - Improve product compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley-related regulations for GRC (governance, risk and compliance). A new logging facility captures all non-data maintenance activity for comprehensive audit capabilities.
- Global Support - Full Unicode support means TM1 9.4 accommodates expanded string lengths beyond 255 characters. Two new languages - simplified Chinese and Japanese - have also been introduced.
IBM Cognos TM1 has received some of the industry's highest ratings for helping organizations drive better business decisions, with faster implementation times and lower IT costs.
Learn more about other products related to IBM Cognos TM1:- IBM Cognos TM1 Web lets users quickly and easily create real-time Web-based reports and charts directly from Microsoft Excel.
- IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer provides real-time Web access to OLAP databases for non-technical business users needing ad-hoc analysis and distributed reporting.
- IBM Cognos TM1 MidMarket Edition offers an array of applications, easy-to-use interfaces, high-performance analytics, and flexible data management.
Additional Resources:
IBM Cognos TM1 Demo
Online Demo
See how this best-of-breed financial analytic solution lets you analyze profitability all the way down to the SKU level.
ROI Case Study - Nucleus Research
Research Study
Improved profitability and an annual ROI of 1,822%. That's what Nucleus Research found when they calculated Blue Mountain Resort's total investment in IBM Cognos TM1 over a three-year period.
Best Practice Approaches to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
White Paper
Steve Player of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) examines five industry-leading companies and explains how IBM Cognos TM1 supports the practices that are vital to the success of these best-in-class organizations.
Business Analytics: The Perfect Fit for the Agile Enterprise
White Paper
Business analytics solutions offer the responsiveness, flexibility, ease, and scalability you need to help manage enterprise performance.
Pragmatic Performance Management in a Fortune 100 Company: Relentless Pursuit of Decision Quality at American Express
Web Seminar On-Demand
You need vision, discipline—and the right tools—to drive effective performance management in a dynamic global marketplace. Listen to this on-demand web seminar to hear how American Express does it.
Financial Analytics to Drive Greater Insight into Profitability and Growth
Web Seminar On-Demand
Finance and business managers need deep, detailed insight into the profitability of customer segments, lines of business and operational areas. Learn how you get those insights with IBM Cognos financial analytics solutions.
Work Smarter—Use IBM Cognos TM1
Web Seminar On-Demand
Learn how Gemstar-TV Guide went from "vastly different" internal systems to a common platform for planning, reporting and analysis, and provided executive management with a "push button gateway" to the information they need to make better decisions.
IBM Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management
The IBM Cognos Innovation Center is a forum and resource center for customers and partners. It helps you drive proven techniques, technologies and best practices in financial performance management. Learn more.
IBM Cognos TM1 Resources
IBM Cognos TM1
Online Demo
See how you can analyze profitability down to the SKU level.
Best Practice Approaches to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
White Paper
Learn how IBM Cognos TM1 supports success in five best-in-class organizations.
Work Smarter—Use IBM Cognos TM1
Webinar On-Demand
Give executives a “push button gateway” to better decisions.
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