IBM Planning Analytics Is Planning, Analysis, and Forecasting Software That Delivers Flexible Solutions to Address Requirements Across the Enterprise
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IBM United States Software Announcement 215-436, dated October 6, 2015 IBM Planning Analytics is planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across the enterprise Table of contents 1 Overview 3 Technical information 1 Key prerequisites 4 Ordering information 2 Planned availability date 5 Terms and conditions 2 Description 7 Prices 2 Program number 7 Order now 3 Publications 8 Corrections Overview IBM(R) Planning Analytics (formerly known as IBM Cognos(R) TM1(R) on Cloud) is a fast, easy, flexible, and complete planning and analytics cloud solution that helps you drive efficiency, deliver foresight, and steer business performance. Planning Analytics benefits: • Flexible modeling and reporting helps you link operational tactics with financial plans, synthesize information, infer trends, and deliver insights to improve decision quality. • Self-service analytics uncovers new insights into opportunities and risks automatically from data. • You retain full MicrosoftTM Excel functionality, where needed, while accessing all the capabilities of a modern planning and analytics solution. • Built on a mature multidimensional technology, Planning Analytics enables dimensional analysis and calculations for the most demanding profitability analysis, scenario planning, and what-if analysis. • You get low cost of entry and a lower total cost of ownership compared to any on premises solution. • Reduced IT expense lets you deploy enterprise planning, analysis, and forecasting processes compared to any on premises solution. • Upgrades to the newest releases are managed and executed by IBM. • Development environment, at no additional cost, allows you to test the application, new models, calculations, and user rights before deploying to actual users. For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at: 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255). Reference: SE001 Key prerequisites • Internet connection • Browser IBM United States Software Announcement 215-436 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 Planned availability date December 11, 2015 Description IBM Planning Analytics (formerly known as IBM Cognos TM1 on Cloud) enables organizations to optimize performance through advanced planning, analytics, modeling, and reporting. Through Planning Analytics's broad flexibility, you can model and then deploy varied planning solutions that address the diverse needs of every department in the organization. Planning Analytics applications are supported by its patented, 64-bit, in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) server, which provides on-demand analytics of complex multidimensional data with real-time analysis and calculation performance. With Planning Analytics, you pay a monthly fee for the rights to use the software. The cloud environment is managed and supported exclusively by IBM at an IBM data center. You are responsible only for the implementation of the application, which means development of the model, configuration of the client tools you choose to deploy, populating the model with data, and assignment of user rights to the application. Planning Analytics delivers significant savings in hardware acquisition, deployment expenses for hardware and software, and ongoing IT support for the entire application footprint. A selection of license options allows the user to add additional Planning Analytics modelers, add additional Planning Analytics users, add additional production instances of Planning Analytics, and add additional nonproduction instances of Planning Analytics. Planning Analytics provides a dynamic planning and analytics workspace to help you: • Link operational tactics with financial plans. • Synthesize information. • Infer trends. • Deliver insights to improve decision quality. You can easily model and deploy metrics and scorecards that are aligned with your budgets, actuals, forecasts, and all other versions of plan data. While users enter plan data, they have full access to all of the KPIs and metrics that affect them, and can immediately see how their new plans and assumptions affect the organization's KPIs and strategies. Planning Analytics enables organizations to deploy planning templates that reduce errors, and save troubleshooting and auditing time. However, all organizations have power users that insist on working with their plan data in Microsoft Excel format. Planning Analytics provides an advanced capability to integrate Planning Analytics data with IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel. Users may leverage one of two modes. One mode enables users to review and post data from prebuilt views that they or others have authored, and another mode enables users to create Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel free form views requiring no formulas. These modes are designed to empower novice users, as well as the most demanding power users of Planning Analytics. Program number Program number VRM Program name 5725-M51 NA IBM Planning Analytics (formerly known as IBM Cognos TM1 on Cloud) IBM United States Software Announcement 215-436 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 Offering Information Product information is available via the Offering Information website http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi Also, visit the Passport Advantage(R) website http://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage Publications No publications are shipped with this program. All product documentation is available on IBM Knowledge Center at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9RXT_10.2.2/ com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ctm1.doc /welcome.html The IBM Publications Center portal is located at http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries. Services Software Services IBM Software Services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. You can leverage the deep technical skills of our lab-based, software services team and the business consulting, project management, and infrastructure expertise of our IBM Global Services team. Also, we extend our IBM Software Services reach through IBM Business Partners to provide an extensive portfolio of capabilities. Together, we provide the global reach, intellectual capital, industry insight, and technology leadership to support a wide range of critical business needs. To learn more about IBM Software Services or to contact a Software Services sales specialist, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-services/ Technical information Specified operating environment Hardware requirements • Internet connection Software requirements • Browser The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a readme file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. IBM United States Software Announcement 215-436 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language. Planning information Packaging This offering is delivered through the Internet. There is no physical media. This program, when downloaded from a website, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT. Ordering information This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap. These products may only be sold directly by IBM or by authorized IBM Business Partners for Software Value Plus. For more information about IBM Software Value Plus, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/page/svp_authorized_portfolio To locate IBM Business Partners for Software Value Plus in your geography for a specific Software Value Plus portfolio, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/bplocator/ Product group: Planning Analytics Product: IBM Planning Analytics (5725-M51) Product category: Planning Analytics Passport Advantage Program name/Description Part number IBM Planning Analytics Additional Planning D1JT5LL Storage 250 Gigabytes per Month IBM Planning Analytics Additional Planning D1JT6LL Storage 250 Gigabytes Overage IBM Planning Analytics Additional D1JT7LL Reporting Storage 250 Gigabytes Overage IBM Planning Analytics Additional D1JT8LL Reporting Storage 250 Gigabytes per Month IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise User D1JT9LL Authorized User per Month IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise User D1JTALL Authorized User Overage IBM Planning Analytics Jump Start D1JTBLL Engagement Set Up IBM Planning Analytics Single Tenant per D11C6LL Instance per Month IBM Planning Analytics Additional D11C8LL Production Instance per Instance per Month IBM Planning Analytics Additional Non- D11CALL Production Instance per Instance per Month IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise Modeler D156ELL per Authorized User per Month IBM United States Software Announcement 215-436 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 4 Program name/Description Part number IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise