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Enterprise Planning, where effective Performance Management begins, combines people, process, and technology in a rich, continuous, and broadly collaborative cycle. It provides insight into past, current, and future operating performance, enabling managers to spot trends, identify opportunities, and affect outcomes.

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series is an integrated, state-of-the-art solution for planning, budgetting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation, and financial reporting. It enables organisations 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.

Enterprise Planning means articulating what you want to achieve - and how you will achieve it - using a hierarchy of plans, measures, and reports that flow from broad strategic objectives to tactical plans across departments, divisions, and locations. It relies on the input and commitment of hundreds or thousands of people who must execute against changing performance goals.

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

Planning - Modeller
Provides the power to create, compare, and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, and assumptions. With Modeller, you have the flexibility to build consistent, interconnected business models for organisations 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.

Planning - Contributor
Extends the planning solution across the enterprise and beyond - to employees, resellers, suppliers, and customers worldwide. 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 supports the broad participation that successful Enterprise Planning requires. Finance workers appreciate its streamlined data collection and workflow management. Business managers appreciate its ease of use. Executives and investors appreciate the fiscal predictability it facilitates across the enterprise.

Consolidation
Provides effective, agile financial reporting and analytics capabilities that offer an accurate, accessible view of cross-organisation 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.