IBM® Cognos® 8 Planning is a finance-managed solution for planning, budgeting and forecasting.

IBM Cognos 8 Planning serves as the cornerstone for enterprise-wide financial performance management. It provides you with real-time visibility into resource requirements and future business results and supports proven best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasts.

• Replace rigid, annual budgeting with continuous planning—daily, weekly or monthly.
• Engage the organization. Users enter data in their own business language instead of unfamiliar financial terms—making it easy to model key business drivers.
• Gain greater flexibility. Create your own business rules and structures—then modify your model as the organization evolves.

Scale to thousands of participants to support top-down and bottom-up planning and forecasting.