IBM Planning Analytics from Sempre

Overview

How can finance leaders avoid volatility, uncertainty, and risk?

Finance leaders are tasked with helping the business to make better decisions that drive profitable growth and improve operational efficiency.

This is nearly impossible for organisations that are using manual and disconnected processes for planning. To adapt to today’s quickly changing business conditions, it is imperative to create a single source of truth and deliver speed and agility to your planning process.

IBM’s Planning Analytics is an enabler that can provide your organisation with

Agility

Easily adjust plans and forecasts in real time to anticipate or adapt to changing business strategies and conditions.

Collaboration

Synchronise processes and data across the organisation, from finance to operations, to create more accurate, integrated plans.

Acceleration

Reduce planning, forecasting, analysis cycles and get real-time insights to make more informed decisions.

Why Planning Analytics?

IBM’s Planning Analytics unifies and streamlines planning across every part of your organisation. And here is how:

Scale for your growing business
Acquire insights quickly and adjust plans in real-time, even in the face of growing data complexity and a multitude of stakeholders, without changing your business processes.

Built-in Data Analysis Capability
Uncover deep insights using robust analysis and reporting tools via dashboarding, Microsoft Excel and IBM Cognos® Analytics.

A functionality boost for Spreadsheets
A tightly integrated Excel interface allows you to keep the functionality you know and love while adding capabilities like multidimensional analysis and planning.

A One-Stop Shop
A suite of solutions designed to support every phase of the analytics lifecycle, ensuring that your business is well-equipped and available both on-premise or on the cloud.

Example of the Integrated Business Planning that can be applied across an organisation

Business Value Reported by the Forrester’s Total Economic Impact Study on organisations that integrate their planning:

63%

Time saved in completing annual budgeting cycles

80%

Faster planning system processing

20%

Time saved in completing tasks

This is more than planning

What is Planning Analytics with Watson?

IBM Planning Analytics is an AI-infused integrated planning solution that combines budgeting and AI-enhanced forecasting with intuitive analysis—reporting and workflows. This is more than planning. This is optimal planning for the best execution.

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What’s holding back your finance team?

Volatility, market uncertainty and risk: these are facts of life. No finance department can make these problems disappear. But, ideally, their main focus should be on addressing the issues – and not on manual spreadsheet-based processing. All that time spent collecting, consolidating and verifying data means less time solving real problems.

Circumstances and market conditions can shift quickly. Too often, finance is unable to deliver the plans, revised budgets, latest reports and insights needed to address those changes in a timely manner.

Other problems faced by businesses include the following:

Lack of in-house support
As a consequence, teams are unable to take advantage of the full functionality of existing planning analytics tools.

Lack of external support
Your existing partner doesn’t seem to understand how your business operates, let alone how you are trying to put financial analysis tools to work.

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