Presentation for financial planning, budgeting and forecast solution with IBM TM1 solution.

1. © 2009 IBM Corporation
Planning and Forecasting Solution for

2. Agenda
 Solution Overview & Unique Value
Propositions
 Client References
 Q & A

3. Why IBM Cognos ?
Tailored for Business users
Performance Management leadership in major industries
Single Integrated Platform for entire planning process
Functional Best Practice Blueprints
One Technology, Multiple Applications
Speed
Flexibility
Business User Ownership

4. IBM Cognos Planning Solutions
Complete Performance Management Solutions
• Read/Write Planning & What-If
• Ad Hoc Analysis and Formatted Reporting
Compensation Management (Oxy)
 Sales Performance Management (Varicent)
 Staffing Optimization (Interstate Hotels)
 Training Certification (Anhueser-Busch)
 Intranet Employee Portal (HP)
 Retail Sales Analysis (Sainsburys)
 New Product Planning (Hot Topic)
 Customer Profitability (CitiGroup)
 Customer Churn Analysis (Pelephone)
 Financial Consolidations (The Hartford)
 Financial Reporting (Viacom)
 Planning (Bristol Myers Squibb)
 Driver Based Budgeting (Huntsman)
 Rolling Forecasts (Biovail Pharm.)
 Risk Analysis (Barclaycard)
 Demand Analysis (Scottish & Southern)
 Inventory Optimization (Lowe’s)
 Logistics Planning (Lufthansa)
 Product Profitability (Cadbury Schweppes)
 Production Planning (GM)
Financial Operations
Workforce Customer

5. Cognos Unique Value Propositions
 Ease of use and minimal change management
– Tightly Integrated with Excel and Web
– Shorter Learning Curve
– Minimal IT administration effort and self maintained solution
– Data Integration risk is minimized
 Shorter Implementation Time
– Lot less project time than similar products
– Lower total cost of ownership and faster ROI
 Built-in Functions for Budget, Planning
– helps users perform difficult tasks in seconds
 Strong Hong Kong Local Presence and Customer Support
 In Memory Architecture and 64 bit Platform
– Real Time
– Fastest Reporting, Modeling, Forecasting
– Handles Massive Data with Better Performance

6. Data Integration tool
– Turbo Integrator
Other Sources
Budget Owners
input data via Excel
or Web
Finance Team
consolidate inputs and
conduct modeling,
forecasting, “what-if”
Analysis & reporting
Senior management
review results via
Excel or Web
Data Sources
End Users

7.  IMPLEMENTATION
 CYCLE TIMES
 REAL TIME UPDATES
 DATA LOADS
 QUERY – CALCS
Why IBM Cognos: “Speed King of the OLAP World”
Query Speed: #1 Driver of Project Success / Business Benefits

8. Performance Is Key

9.  USER DRIVEN MODELS
 BEYOND FINANCE
 OPTIMAL MODELLING
ENVIRONMENT
 LIVE RESTRUCTURES
 NO TECHNICAL
TUNING REQUIREMENTS
Why IBM Cognos : THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS
Flexibility: Key to Non-Finance Performance Applications

10. Cognos Solutions Demonstration

11. Selected Customer References
GRI
Asia Limited

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Q & A