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IBM Cognos TM1Capabilities spanning personal, departmental andenterprise-wide planning and analysis, to improvealignment and drive dynamic decision-makingthroughout the organization

OverviewMany Finance departments shortchange their strategy support,

enterprise perormance management and risk management activities

because theyre too busy reining in and validating data. They rely onsystems ranging rom spreadsheets to ERP solutions that are

disconnected, expensive, completely managed by IT, and lack the

perormance and data reliability essential or on-demand analytics.

IBM Cognos TM1 radically transorms planning, budgeting and

orecasting. As a planning solution, it excels at providing immediate

visibility into resource requirements and uture business perormance.

It provides what-i scenario analytics or all participants and

acilitates decision-making throughout the enterprise. With its

distributed administrative capabilities, Cognos TM1 enables localized

responsibility or plan processes across business units, unctions and

geographies all in a single, secure planning environment.

With the ull range o planning processes tied to the operational ront

lines, planners and analysts can uncover hidden business opportunities,

increase prots and manage capital more eectively. Cognos TM1

acilitates best practices such as driver-based planning, rolling orecasts

and protability analysis blended into planning. It elevates Finances

work to that o proactively managing the companys perormance.

Highlights

Alignmentofnancialandoperationaltargetsinoneconnectedsolutionwith

unrivaledresponsiveness

Apersonalanalyticsdesktopforcreating

andcontributingtoplans

Amodernmodelingenvironmentfor

guideddesignandenterprise-scale

deployment

Apowerfulanalyticsenginefordynamic

planning,forecastingandre-forecasting

Distributedarchitecturetodrive

participationdeepandwidethrough

theorganization

Integrationwithpowerfulbusiness

intelligenceandpredictiveanalytics

OwnershipandmanagementbyFinance

andline-of-businessusers

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Cognos TM1 is the only enterprise planning and analytics

solution that:

Enables reliable, on-demand analysis, plans, orecasts

and reports, and provides a holistic view o perormance,

including protability

Oers a choice o interaces, including Microsot Excel,

to encourage high participation, and to accommodate a

broad range o work styles, business-specic personal

analysis and options or collaboration

Provides a managed, governed planning, analysis, and

reporting process that spans personal, work group and

enterprise requirements and is owned by Finance and

line-o- business users.

Provides a personal analytics desktop that combines analysis,

planning, reporting and personal dashboarding in a single

interace

Features an innovative, guided modeling environment that

eases development and deployment o planning, analysis

and orecasting solutions

Integrates with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, to

establish a single view o perormance that consolidates

data rom multiple sources and applications, and provides

dynamic planning, analysis and perormance reporting

Oers a choice o distributed (online or ofine) or

centralized planning deployments or a range o users

and activities

Works in conjunction with dozens o Cognos PerormanceBlueprints pre-congured templates that help transorm

essential processes quickly, at less cost and with less risk

With these capabilities, companies can become highly

collaborative and adaptive. Analysts can develop models and

link them to other models to orm a cohesive system, and

deploy their models to workgroups or users throughout the

enterprise or contribution. Users in unctions such as sales,

marketing or HR can analyze planning results and explore

alternative scenarios with an easy-to-use graphical interace.

They can share plans in dashboards or reports, and prompt

team members or comments and validation. Planning teammembers can also easily blend in complex protability

analysis or predictive analytics.

Features and benefts o Cognos TM1Cognos TM1 oers these unique capabilities:

A platorm and solutions design, which provides complete,

rapid-response, enterprise-level planning and analysis

Rapid development o fexible models, including protability

models without batch processing

Guided deployment or end users

Expandability beyond planning to include business

intelligence and predictive and risk analytics, dashboards,

scorecards and reports, including standard general ledger,

accounts receivable and accounts payable reports

What-i analysis o alternative orecasts refected immediately

in charts, reports and dashboards.

Control by Finance, with business users managing their

own work, and without the need or constant IT support

IBM Cognos Insight: a new interace

or Cognos TM1In addition to the traditional interace, users can also access

Cognos TM1 through Cognos Insight, the personal business

analytics desktop that transorms planning and analytics

or the individual contributor by accommodating the non-

spreadsheet user. Not locked in by spreadsheets, a planner

can push the boundaries o participation as deeply and as

widely as required and halt the development o shadow

planning systems that hinder cooperation. Users who are

intimate with the operations o the business can examinecauses, trends and options in greater depth, and develop

plans that better refect the complex dynamics o the business,

spotlighting drivers that need to be incorporated into the

planning process.

With Cognos Insight, users are empowered to reely explore

new plan models. When accessing Cognos TM1 through the

Cognos Insight interace, users can pull the data o their

choice onto their desktop rom managed or personal

sources and without the assistance o IT and build plan

prototypes with personalized dimensions and hierarchies,

and run what-i scenarios on the plan data. They can dive

deep into data to examine the protability o the business,

analyze hierarchies such as product amilies down to the

SKU level or customer amily sets, and view on-demand the

eect o a costing change. The quick, easy development and

experimentation with the plans is aided by intuitive gestures

or exploration, instant re-calculations, and rich visualization.

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To share planning ideas, users can collaborate with multiple

groups throughout the enterprise by:

Promoting their ndings in a tailored dashboard inCognos Business Insight or broad distribution

Publishing the material to be read as a report in Cognos

Business Intelligence

Moving the plan to the Web as an application or either

limited or widely distributed access

Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler

solution design and deploymentCognos TM1 Perormance Modeler, with its advanced

modeling environment, provides the seasoned planner with

a ull array o analytics and model building tools as well as

planning application deployment all with unprecedented

ease o use. Because Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler

eases application design with its guided development process,

planners can employ best practices such as:

Driver-based planning and rolling orecasting,

enhancing Finances contribution to enterprise

perormance management

Broad involvement in the modeling process

Frequent, rapid prototyping

Deep linking o models to meet the broad range o

enterprise planning and protability analysis

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Figure 1:Aplanneraddscommentstoaplaninworkow.

Within Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler, the nance or

business analyst can design a planning and analysis solution,

such as an expense plan, or bring in an existing model rom

Cognos Insight. Designing the model includes:

Dening new dimensions, such as product, customer or

cost center

Building cubes such as sales planning or customer

protability analysis to support the planning requirements

o business users

Creating or modiying a calculation, aided with

pre-congured calculation expressions

Eciently importing data and metadata rom multiple

sources, mapping it to the model with drag-and-drop

gestures

Figure 2:Withthisinnovativemodelingenvironmentsuitedforrapid, agileplanmodeling,thenancialplannercanadddimensionstocubes,

ormapdimensionstomultiplecubesandotherdimensionswithpoint-

and-clickease.

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With a user-riendly graphical interace, the analyst can

link applications (or cubes) with simple drag-and-drop

gestures, coupling nancial resource management with

operational perormance commitments.

Through the use o Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler,

Cognos TM1 oers eatures such as:

Three dedicated panes or content, working area, andproperties

Wide use o drag-and-drop and WYSIWYG (what you see

is what you get) unctionality

Dock-able editors

Simple spreadsheet-like dimension calculations

Graphical mapping or moving data between models

and across dimensions within the models

An inter-editor reresh to highlight changes

Guided import or data and metadata rom sources such

as IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Figure 3:Guidedmodelingdesignengendersmoremodelingandscenarios,allowingmoretimefordeepanalysisaswellasgreatercondenceinplanningandforecasting.

Solution deployment for planning,analytics and reporting

Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler also provides a process

or deploying managed planning, analysis and reporting that

spans personal, work group and enterprise requirements.

Cognos TM1 Perormance Modeler helps increase user

participation across departments and increase user

commitment to achievable goals. Application design

guides the planner through steps to set workfow, preerred

client and application views and rights.

For planning contribution, Cognos TM1 Perormance

Modeler provides a broad array o application styles and

interaces through Cognos Insight and Cognos TM1

Web Sheets.

Figure 4:Aspartoftheguidedprocessfordeployingaplanning application,aplanneroradministratoraddsasubsettotheplanningapplication,deningtheapprovalhierarchy.

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The high-perormance OLAP engine at the core o

Cognos Analytic Server enables on-demand, in-memory

analytics or large or complex data sets with real-time query

and calculation perormance. Users can analyze requently

changing data or millions o items, such as SKUs or

transactions. For example, users can:

Review sales daily or even hourly, by store, brand or

sales representative

Analyze day-by-day protability and customer churn

or thousands or even millions o customer accounts

Track trends in spending over minutes, hours, days, weeks,

months whatever period is required

The 64-bit OLAP technology o Cognos Analytic Server

meets even the most complex, multi-dimensional analytics

needs o large-scale operations, so a user can query data

whenever he or she needs to no matter how vast the data

set may be. In addition, the user can view instant updates rom

streamed data and drill through to transaction systems or

added context and thus greater accuracy in decision making.

To rapidly access valuable inormation locked away in

back-oce applications, Cognos Analytic Server includes

data connectors with guided import that are shared with IBM

Cognos Business Intelligence to streamline the loading o

metadata or disparate data into models. A user can also create

his or her own processes to automate data importation,metadata management and other tasks.

The Cognos TM1 Operations Console, a web-based

tool, makes it easy to manage Cognos TM1 servers. An

administrator can dynamically monitor, sort and lter thread

activity on Cognos TM1 servers, including monitoring

threads running on multiple Cognos TM1 server instances.

The administrator can view memory use and perormance

data as well as user connection activity on the servers. The

Cognos TM1 Operations Console also provides a health

check eature which determines the current state o each

monitored server.

Figure 5:Withingovernedplanning,thenancialanalystsetsparametersforemailnoticationssuchasplanchangesorfreezes.

Figure 6:Toenableagovernedplanningprocess,CognosTM1guidestheplanneroradministratorthroughstepstosetworkow,preferredclientandapplicationviewsandrights.

Cognos Analytic Server distributed architectural

advances for scale and interactivity

Cognos Analytic Server lets an organization choose

centralized or distributed deployment methods or itsCognos TM1 planning activities, depending upon the level

o interactivity desired. The thin client Cognos TM1

Web supports centralized planning. The distributed

process using Cognos Analytic Server supports higher

levels o planning participation, either online or ofine, or

continued planning when disconnected rom the server.

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Technical Specifcations

Operating Systems for TM1 Server

AIX5.3,6.1,7.1 RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAS5onx86

Solaris10(SPARC)

MicrosoftWindows7,7SP1(Professional&Ultimate)

MicrosoftWindowsServer2008R2Standard,

2008Enterprise

MicrosoftWindowsVistaSP2

MicrosoftWindows2003ServerSP2StandardEdition,

2003ServerSP264-bit

MicrosoftWindowsXPProfessionalSP3

Supported Microsoft Excel Versions:

MicrosoftExcel2003,2007,2010

Databases/OLAP Support MicrosoftSQLServer2005Native,2005via

DataDirect5.3

IBMDB210.1,9.7,9.5

MicrosoftSQLServer2008,2008viaDataDirect5.3

MicrosoftAccess2003

Oracle9.2.0.1viaOracle9iclient(Oracle9iRelease2)

Oracle10gRelease1viaOracle10gR1Client,10g

Release2viaOracle10gR2Client,11gRelease1,

11gRelease2-Windows/Linux/UNIX

SAPBW3.5,3.5(UnicodeInstance)

SAPNetWeaver2004sBI,7.0EHP1

TeradataV2R13.1

VirtualViewManager10.1

BI Integration

IBMCognosBusinessIntelligenceV10.2,10.1.1,

10.1FP1,8.4.1FP4

Web Browsers

MicrosoftInternetExplorer7,8or9

MozillaFirefox3.5,3.6,4or5

Application Servers

IBMWebSphere7.0

ApacheTomcat6.0.18

Web Servers

IIS6,7,7.5

Cognos Insight Client

Operating Systems (both x86 & x64)

MicrosoftWindows7,

MicrosoftWindowsVistaSP2

MicrosoftWindowsXPProfessionalSP3

Web Browsers

MicrosoftInternetExplorer7,8or9

MozillaFirefoxESR10.1

IBM Cognos TM1 eaturesCognosTM1enhancesyourplanning,analyticsand

relatedreportingprocesseswith:

Personalized analysis and planning desktop.Acomponent

thatenablesanalytics,planningandreporting.

Innovation modeling.Guidedmodeling,data/metadata

managementandapplicationdesignanddeploymentfor

planning,analysis,andforecasting Choice of interfaces.Spreadsheet,web,orCognosInsight

fornon-spreadsheetusers

High performance analytics.Patented,64-bit,in-memory

OLAPforenterprisescalabilityandreal-timescenario

modelingtofacilitateenterprise-wideplanningandanalysis.

Security.Role-basedsecuritythatsupportsmultipleusers

andusertypes.Advancedpredenedselectionoptions

ensurethatusersseeonlythoseportionsoftheplanthat

theyneedto.

Microsoft Excel formatting on the web.Allplannersand

stakeholderscanread,write,performwhat-ifanalysis

andreportwithMicrosoftExcelsheetsrightontheweb.

Administrative tools.Utilitiesformanagingserver

performanceandsettingrole-basedaccess.

Global support.Unicodesupportaccommodatesstring

lengthsexpandedbeyond255characters.Language

supportforJapaneseandsimpliedChineseisincluded.

Link to external applications.BecauseCognosTM1

isCognos10ready,youcanlinktoenterprisereporting,

scorecardingandotherdesktopapplicationssouserscan

workwithfamiliarinterfaces.

Connectors. ExtendyourERPinvestmentswiththeIBM

Cognosdataorchestrationtool,whicheasilyconnectsto

datawarehouses,MicrosoftExcelworksheetsorany

ODBC-compliantdatabases.

Cognos Performance Blueprints.Templatesforimproving

yourplanningprocesses,optimizingtheuseofCognos

TM1andreducingyourtimetovalueatlesscostandwith

lessrisk.

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ConclusionIBM Cognos TM1 provides a dynamic, collaborative solution

to meet all o your enterprise planning and analytics needs.

It excels at providing on-demand visibility to plans and

orecasts, rapid what-i scenario modeling, and protability

analysis. When paired with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

V10.1, it addresses a breadth o reporting and scorecarding

needs. With its personal analytics desktop and choice o

centralized or distributed deployment methods, Cognos TM1

revolutionizes comprehensive bottoms-up participation in

the planning process. This innovative, cohesive enterprise

system helps you take charge o your decision-making

processes to uncover hidden business options, increase

prots and manage capital eectively.

About IBM Business AnalyticsIBM Business Analytics sotware delivers data-driven

insights that help organizations work smarter and outperorm

their peers. This comprehensive portolio includes solutions

or business intelligence, predictive analytics and decision

management, perormance management, and risk

management.

Business Analytics solutions enable companies to identiy

and visualize trends and patterns in areas, such as customer

analytics, that can have a proound eect on business

perormance. They can compare scenarios, anticipate

potential threats and opportunities, better plan, budgetand orecast resources, balance risks against expected returns

and work to meet regulatory requirements. By making

analytics widely available, organizations can align tactical

and strategic decision-making to achieve business goals. For

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