Cognos Enterprise Planning Series

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series is an integrated, state-of-the-art solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation, and financial reporting. Based on technology from the acquisition of Adaytum, it enables an organization to:

• create a clear-cut strategy for achieving best-in-class status
• turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets for employees and external partners
• communicate plans and budgets enterprise-wide
• provide real-time feedback to planning process participants
• realign plans as events unfold
• manage performance with state-of-the-art Cognos reporting and analysis

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series consists of three multi-functional components:

Cognos Planning - Analyst

Provides the power to create, compare, and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, and assumptions. With Analyst, you have the flexibility to build consistent, interconnected business models for organizations of any size. You can access current data to assess performance, and proceed from "what is" to the "what if" scenarios critical for future success.

Cognos Planning - Contributor

Extends the planning solution across the enterprise and beyond—to employees, resellers, suppliers, and customers worldwide. And Contributor eliminates the problems of errors, version control, and timeliness that are so characteristic of a spreadsheet-based planning process. The scalability and simplicity of Contributor support the broad participation that successful enterprise planning requires. Finance appreciates its streamlined data collection and workflow management. Business managers appreciate its ease of use. And executives and investors appreciate the fiscal predictability it facilitates across the enterprise.

Cognos Consolidation

Provides effective, agile financial reporting and analytics capabilities that offer an accurate, accessible view of cross-organization finances. By consolidating multiple diverse ledgers—with thousands of operating units and accounts—into a common chart-of-accounts structure, Consolidation streamlines reporting cycles so you can spend more time doing what you do best—running your business.

About Cognos :- Founded in 1969, and serving more than 22,000 customers in 135 countries and employing over 3,000 people worldwide, Cognos is the world's leading provider of enterprise business intelligence and performance planning solutions that optimize the performance of the world's largest and most successful organizations.