Free One‑Day IBM Planning Analytics & Cognos Analytics Health Check*
Optimise performance. Resolve bottlenecks. Strengthen your IBM Environment(s). Request your Free Health Check today.
What is the One‑Day IBM Planning Analytics & Cognos Analytics Health Check?
Whether you’re using IBM Planning Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics, or a combined environment, our free one‑day health check workshop gives you instant clarity on what’s slowing your system down and how to fix it.
Delivered by our IBM specialists who all have deep hands‑on experience from years of IBM implementations and health checks, this workshop is ideal for organisations across the UK seeking to improve reporting, forecasting, performance, governance and user experience.
Why organisations choose this 1-Day IBM Health Check*:
Our free IBM Planning Analytics/ Cognos Analytics Health Check helps organisations:
Improve IBM model performance and reporting speed.
Identify and resolve TI process and cube rule issues.
Address slow dashboards, report failures, or modelling challenges.
Strengthen governance, architecture, and best practice alignment.
Review ILMT audit reports to confirm IBM licensing compliance.
Modernise Older IBM Deployments.
Explore new capabilities such as AI enhanced modelling and agentic AI.
Who is the IBM Health Check for?
The Simpson Associates IBM 1-day Health Check is ideal for organisations that:
Use IBM Planning Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics, or both.
Suspect their IBM system has slowed down over time.
Have accumulated technical debt or outdated processes.
Need reassurance on IBM Best Practice.
Are planning IBM upgrades, migration or optimisation.
Want actionable insights before investing further in their IBM Platform.
IBM 1-Day Health Check*. What does it include?
Review of your Key IBM Users
We start with a collaborative walkthrough of your Planning Analytics or Cognos Analytics environment. This session includes:
* Power Users
* Admins
* Analysts and business users
Our team takes you through your application, highlights pain points, and walks you through your user journeys and operational challenges. This ensures the deep dive is fully tailored to your real workload and objectives.
A deep dive into your priority issues
Through the rest of the day, we work closely with nominated key users to investigate your most pressing technical and functional challenges. Depending on your IBM platform. Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics or combined Planning Analytics or Cognos Analytics.
Planning Analytics (PA) deep dive
- Performance bottlenecks.
- Slow or failing reports.
- TI Processes (the ETL engine).
- Cube Rules (core business logic calculations).
- Architectural and modelling structure.
- Use of best practice and optimisation patterns.
- Governance, audit trails and process clarity.
- Software version age and upgrade considerations.
Cognos Analytics (CA) deep dive
- Report dependency issues and technical debt.
- Slow dashboards or reports.
- Modelling challenges in Framework Manager or Data Modules.
- Query performance issues.
- Security, distribution, and governance gaps.
- Data lineage and structure.
Combined Planning Analytics + Cognos Analytics review
A comprehensive deep dive into the health, performance, and architecture of your IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics, or combined environment. This assessment helps identify bottlenecks, technical debt, optimisation opportunities, and risks across your full planning and reporting landscape.
This combined review brings together all elements of both the Planning Analytics Deep Dive and the Cognos Analytics Deep Dive, giving you a single, end‑to‑end view of your environment.
Optional AI Opportunities Assessment
IBM is rapidly advancing with AI‑driven capabilities — including Agentic AI and enhanced intelligent automation features.
If you wish, we can also review:
- Whether your current PA or CA models are positioned to take advantage of new AI capabilities
- Opportunities to modernise forecasting, planning, modelling, or reporting
- Where automation or intelligent rules could replace manual logic
- Options for improving user experience with AI‑driven support or insights
This is optional, but increasingly valuable for organisations planning future‑ready architectures.
End‑of‑Day Summary & Recommendations
By the end of the workshop, you’ll receive a clear, high‑level summary document that can be presented directly to your sponsors or stakeholders.
Your report includes:
- Key pain points discovered
- Root‑cause insights
- Practical, prioritised recommendations
- Opportunities for operational improvement
- Quick wins and longer‑term optimisation ideas
This gives you a structured, actionable roadmap to improve your IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics, or combined IBM arcitecture
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Outcomes
Upon completion You’ll receive a clear, high‑level summary report that you can share directly with sponsors or stakeholders. Highlighting key pain points, root‑cause insights, practical and prioritised recommendations, opportunities for improvement, and both quick wins and longer‑term optimisation ideas. Giving you an actionable roadmap to enhance your IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics, or combined architecture.
We are delighted to be partnering with Simpson Associates. They have demonstrated excellent skills and product knowledge from the start. As well as being experts in their field, their commitment to ensure they provide the best service possible shines through. We are excited to see what we can achieve with the Simpsons Team to take OSCAR to the next level.
Why Simpson Associates
Simpson Associates has been an IBM Partner for over 30 years. As a trusted UK data transformation partner, Simpson Associates has decades of experience across IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics projects — from health checks and optimisations to redesigns, migrations and full‑stack implementations.
Our approach is:
- Collaborative
- Practical
- Customer‑led
- Focused on value rather than upsell
We simply help you get the best from the analytics platforms you already rely on.
Book Your Free One‑Day Health Check*
Choose the option that best suits your organisation:
- IBM Planning Analytics Health Check
- IBM Cognos Analytics Health Check
- Combined PA + CA Health Check
No cost. No obligation. Just expert insight and a clear path forward. Contact us today!
*Offer subject to availability; one Health Check per organisation; Simpson Associates may amend or withdraw at any time.