Cognos Enterprise Planning Series
Enterprise planning, budgeting & forecasting

Enterprise planning takes your organization's overall strategy plan and breaks it down into the activities, decisions, and initiatives necessary to achieve it.

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series enables both top-down objective setting and bottom-up contribution. This helps secure the necessary buy-in at lower levels of the company and connect the senior executive team and field management.

Enterprise planning, budgeting, and forecasting from Cognos lets organizations create and maintain models for thousands of tightly linked operations. These planning models can be created and communicated in days, not months. Cutting the time spent on budgeting and planning processes gives you more time for in-depth analysis, or to turn annual budgets into rolling forecasts.

With Cognos, you can automate the creation of thousands of personalized plans for each business unit and integrate feedback from all contributors. The corporate game plan is translated into specific, practical plans that share a common purpose and a common language.

How Cognos helps you plan, budget, and forecast:

• Unsurpassed scalability—The intelligent, distributed processing of Cognos uses a local Web client that maintains fast response for thousands of concurrent users.
• User-friendly interface—Easy-to-deploy templates let contributors enter data in terms relevant to their specific areas. The responsive feel of Cognos software will be familiar to spreadsheet users and encourage their participation.
• Sophisticated Modeling—Cross-functional planning relies on complex logic and dependencies. Built-in modeling capabilities accelerate the development of business models.
• Dynamic linking—Individual components of a model can interact in real-time, providing consistency.
• Workflow management—Cognos tracks the entire planning process and gives you the status of every participant. The cycle proceeds at the speed of the fastest contributor, not the slowest. It also promotes dialogue among participants, further shortening cycles.
• NetPlanning—Cognos can involve external contributors and other participants not normally involved in planning and performance management processes for on-the-fly collaboration over the Web.