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, and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

Lessons in Business Agility Series - Episode #1: John Van Decker, vice president for Corporate Performance Management and Financial Management Systems research at Gartner

Podcast

John Van Decker, vice president for Corporate Performance Management and Financial Management Systems research at Gartner, discusses corporate performance management and its role in helping companies achieve business agility. At Gartner, he focuses on how to bring a technology solution into an enterprise, including the software, services and change management that will be required to achieve business value. Mr. Van Decker has spent many years on the fence between the IT and Finance organizations, alternating back and forth several times over his 23-year career.

2008 Cognos Virtual Finance Forum

On-Demand Event

View archived presentations from our virtual event for finance professionals. Sessions from industry experts like Bryan Hall of the Hackett Group, get first-hand accounts from leading companies who are succeeding with FPM solutions like 7-Eleven and American Express and preview our latest solutions with our product solution experts.

The 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.

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