Enterprise planning integrates plans and budgets across departments, divisions, and locations. It translates corporate objectives into concrete financial and tactical plans.

The best plans are not simply top-down. They depend on information from the bottom-up. The best plans engage the hundreds and thousands of people who make them happen.

Enterprise planning dramatically speeds up the mechanics of the planning process. You can build business models in days rather than months, letting you test scenarios and reduce risk. You can turn annual budgets into rolling forecasts that give more accurate visibility into future operating performance.

Parson delivers enterprise planning through the integrated capabilities of the Cognos^® Enterprise Planning Series. You gain better visibility of your business plans and the budgets that drive them, employee accountability through distributed scorecard metrics, and information reliability through a shared financial framework of data.

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series enables the management cycle by bringing together:

Planning, budgeting, & forecasting
Take your organization's overall strategy and break it down into the activities, decisions, and initiatives necessary to achieve it.

Consolidations & financial reporting
Cut consolidation and reporting cycles to spend more time on in depth analysis and enable more flexible, dynamic planning.