Cognos Planning

Cognos 8 Planning is Enterprise Planning software that helps you develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently.

The tool, combined with PMSquare's significant financial experience, enables you to see your resource requirements and forecasted business results in real-time. The overwhelming benefit of this real-time application is your ability to make informed decisions based on today's data, rather than a report on yesterday's performance. This software helps you turn your theoretical strategy into the most efficient and actionable of plans, budgets and forecasts.

Cognos 8 Planning will enable you to:

  • Define your goals and effectively communicate your strategy and plans across the organisation.
  • Replace rigid, annual budgeting with continuous planning on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
  • Connect operations and finance through plans that maximise operational effectiveness and inform operational and finance plans.
  • Engage the organisation by enabling users to enter data in their own business language, so you can model your own key business drivers.
  • Gain greater flexibility by creating your own business rules and structures, then modify your model as the organisation evolves.
  • Leverage investments in applications from Oracle and SAP by integrating planning with IBM Cognos reporting and analysis.
  • Merge various data sources into one business for collaborative decision-making.

Enterprise Planning is essential if large organisations are going to remain agile and competitive in an increasingly aggressive market place. Working with PMSquare to select the right software solution for your planning, and then guiding your organisation and key staff through the process, is the path to success. Our highly experienced team understands Enterprise Planning inside-out. We offer formal project management qualifications, and work hard to ensure clear, open communication with your internal teams. We are here to ensure that your project is scoped and delivered with complete accuracy.

Here are some of the ways that PMSquare gives you confidence:

  • We undertake a painstakingly comprehensive needs analysis before we even look at the software package, this means we select the solution that is right for your organisation.
  • We understand finance, so we are able to gain an in-depth understanding of your functional needs faster than most, enabling us to get to the solution sooner.
  • We ensure you have the right resources working together to implement the plan - a team that is large enough for the project to succeed, but lean enough for it to deliver a fast return on investment.
  • We undertake extensive testing, to ensure any performance issues within the solution are ironed out before we ask you to adopt it.
  • We deliver customised, practical training - that is, training that shows users how to work with the tools in their every-day environment, utilising your organisational data and allowing users to interact with the solution in 'real-life' scenarios.

"PMSquare were highly relied upon to provide best practice guidance on Data Warehouse design and Cognos EP development. As the business partnership grew stronger and major project hurdles were over-come, further expertise was sought from PMSquare for Cognos BI."
Jason Rankin, Business Controller ANZ

If you would like more information on Cognos EP features and benefits, download our EP Overview here.