These words are being written in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

It’s March 2020, and many companies are facing the reality that the carefully crafted financial plans and budgets they started the new year with are suddenly, and dramatically, out of date.

Digital Transformation gives us a language to explain why some companies deploy technology with much more success than others.

IBM is ending support for IBM Cognos TM1 10.2.2 on September 30, 2019. Even though IBM Planning Analytics continues to be “powered by IBM TM1” it’s a bitter-sweet moment.

If you are a long time IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) administrator, you may have developed a fondness through the years TM1TOP3-min-1for a utility called TM1TOP.

Improved forecast accuracy becomes a huge profit driver. Most Finance teams understand and readily admit that improvements in forecast accuracy,

With the release of Cognos Analytics 11.1, IBM continues to build upon its efforts to streamline, standardize, and modernize the user experience across their analytics offerings, while also taking major steps at embedding artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics across the Cognos Analytics experience.

Are you frustrated by the amount of time spent producing reports such as Board Books, Monthly Management Reports, and Regulatory Reports? These may end up as PowerPoint slides, Excel files, Word or PDF documents – or a combination.

If you are still on a version of IBM Cognos TM1, it is time to plan your upgrade to its rebranded successor, IBM Planning Analytics.

Think 2018, which was held in Las Vegas March 19-22, was as big (about 30,000 in attendance) as it was bold: we are entering “an era of man plus machines” where we will be “putting smart to work in a smarter business”, IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty said during her Chairman’s keynote address.