Planning-Led Performance Management
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ADDRESS initial needs |
Explore the IBM Cognos 8 Planning Interface.
Spreadsheets are useful, but inherently disconnected. They create a host of obstacles for any finance organization trying to reduce budget-process cycle times, increase the reliability of forecasts, or simply track what is happening in the planning process.
As spreadsheets proliferate, these obstacles multiply. So the initial step toward better planning, budgeting and forecasting is to adopt a dedicated planning tool to automate the process. IBM Cognos 8 Planning makes routine processes run more efficiently, so you can:
- Create and distribute budgets faster, with less staff effort, while engaging more contributors
- Reduce planning, budgeting and forecasting cycle times
- Eliminate disconnected spreadsheets, cutting versioning and control errors
Review these materials to learn how to address your initial process needs and, in the words of Ventana Research, take “a time-consuming, nearly universally loathed exercise, and…transform it into a value-generating process.”
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