Reporting & What-if Analysis

Financial Reporting

Real Time Access to Valuable Information

IBM Cognos TM1 provides business users with real time access to information for advanced analysis and reporting. Users are provided with dynamic, interactive, "self-service" analytics.

Functional Areas

Goal Seeking, Profit & Loss, Income Statements, Balance Sheet, Variance Analysis, Report Books, Management Packs, Cash flow statements, Key Performance Metrics

Product Features & Benefits

  • A single integrated framework for reporting, viewing, querying & analyzing data
  • Interactive Charts & Graphs
  • Create real-time ad hoc reports
  • Quickly spot performance trends and outliers
  • Publish Management Report Packs
  • Model any aspect of the business at a granular level of detail
  • Reports with Automated Alerts & Exceptions
  • Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) reports
  • Retrieve detailed data with drill-down, drill-up, or drill-through
  • Export data to formats like Excel, e-mail, or PDF
  • Personalized home pages, workflow and context-driven reports.

What-if Analysis

Forecast future results in real time

IBM Cognos TM1 offers the "Best in Class" What-if Analysis in the market. Change a calculation in your budget, plan or forecast and see the results instantly with what-if analysis.

Using a model you can test various scenarios prior to publishing them. Planners use models to address questions such as these:

  • What profits can we anticipate next year if inflation is 7 percent and we continue current pricing policies?
  • If we open a new plant, what profits can we expect?
  • What if we were to hire 55 people in Sales, 10 in Marketing and 35 in R&D?
  • What is the impact on manufacturing and shipping if the price of oil increases 15% during Q2?
  • What would be needed for raw material and inventory if the demand of a product went up 20%?

Product Features & Benefits

  • Model any aspect of the business at a granular level of detail
  • Flexibility to predict future outcomes
  • Ability to model sales projections, materials and labor requirements, and projected income
  • Enter your data and change it as many times as you want, immediately see the changes and compare with historical data or other projections
  • Ability to commit or not commit any what-if scenarios

Cognos Express: Planning, Forecasting & BI for Midsize Companies

Start Date: Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 2pm
Time Zone: EDT
Registration: FREE

IBM Cognos FSR: The Silver Bullet for Automated SEC Reporting & XBRL Detailed Footnote Tagging

Start Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 @ 2:00pm
Time Zone: EST
Registration: FREE