Planning Software

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting for Performance Management

Planning software helps you answer a fundamental performance management question, “What should we be doing?”

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Translate your strategies and objectives into plans, budgets, and forecasts. Build dynamic, interconnected models for better visibility and control over your performance.

  • Define your goals—Develop your clear-cut strategy and allocate the resources to achieve it.
  • Model “what-if”—Go from "what-is" to evaluate new scenarios.
  • Connect Finance with other departments—Coordinate operational and financial plans for better reliability. Link your financial projections with the sales, headcount, expense and capital expenditure plans that underpin them.
  • Communicate plans enterprise-wide—Provide real-time feedback for your planning process, across departments, functions, and geographies.
  • Adjust targets, plans, and resource allocations—As condition change, adapt driver-based plans and rolling forecasts. Don’t limit yourself with annual budgets that are out of date as soon as they're completed.

Learn more:
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting with IBM Cognos 8 Planning

 
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