TM1 Consulting for Financial & Operational Planning & Forecasting
At QueBIT, we believe that when it comes to your critical business processes, you shouldn’t have to compromise. That’s why we work with our clients to develop fast, flexible, and robust solutions using IBM® Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1.
IBM® Planning Analytics is an AI-infused, continuous integrated planning solution that allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning. This solution breaks down business unit siloes so you can quickly create more accurate plans and forecasts for Financial Planning & Analysis, sales, supply chain and even manage your sustainability goals, all on one platform. Pivot in real-time, accelerate decision making and drive higher performance, all at the speed of modern business.
The IBM Planning Analytics platform, together with QueBIT’s expertise in finance and across all major industries is a powerful foundation for success.
Benefits of IBM Planning Analytics with QueBIT:
With Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx), users can continue working in the familiar spreadsheet environment while tapping into TM1’s robust modeling and data capabilities
Data-Driven Decisions - Harness real-time insights from the multidimensional database to formulate informed strategies and predictions.
Enhanced Productivity - Use AI-driven features to automate repetitive tasks, providing more room for meaningful work.
Collaborative Planning - Our platform promotes collective input, facilitating simultaneous contributions from various departments.
Robust Data Safety - With features like encryption and role-based access, your data's security is always a priority.
Tailored User Experience - Adjust the system’s appearance and operational flows to match your company's requirements.
Adaptable to Business Dynamics - The IBM TM1 multidimensional database is equipped to manage vast data volumes, catering to your business's expansion, contraction, or fluctuating demands.
Planning Analytics AI Assistant
Ask a question. Get an answer. Take action. All inside IBM Planning Analytics.
IBM Planning Analytics AI Assistant brings conversational AI directly into your planning environment. Your finance team can interact with data in plain language, automate routine tasks, and with new agentic capabilities, kick off approval processes, update connected systems, and execute multi-step tasks from a single prompt, without ever leaving the platform they already use.
This is not a separate tool bolted on top. It is AI built natively into IBM Planning Analytics, which means there is nothing new to implement, no disruption to existing workflows, and your team starts getting value immediately.
What the AI Assistant does for your planning team:
- Natural Language Querying - Your team asks in plain English and gets answers immediately. No formulas, no IT requests, no waiting. Just the data view they need, when they need it.
- Explain Cell - Click any cell in any model and ask the Assistant to explain it. Your team gets the reasoning behind the number in plain language, not buried formula logic.
- Impact Analysis - Surface associations across data dimensions and get a plain-language summary of what is actually driving the results, without building a separate analysis.
- Chart Insights - Understand outliers and key drivers in your plans and forecasts through natural language explanations, directly inside the chart view.
- Agentic Workflows - With agentic execution via watsonx Orchestrate, the Assistant goes beyond answering questions. It takes action, automating month-end tasks, moving data between systems, and executing workflows based on a plain-language prompt.
Powerful enough for your finance team to use independently. Governed well enough that IT can actually sign off on it.
IBM Planning Analytics Performance Diagnostic
Our IBM Performance Diagnostic can evaluate the health of your current IBM Planning Analytics applications as well as forthcoming developmental endeavors. By addressing concerns early on, end-users, administrators, and developers benefit from an enhanced operational experience.
A comprehensive Performance Diagnostic assesses the alignment of your IBM Planning Analytics application with your company's goals by examining these crucial areas:
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How well is the system designed?
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What are its strengths and weaknesses?
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Does the architecture deliver optimal performance for the existing feature set?
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Will the system easily flex for short-term strategy adjustments?
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How much effort will be required to adjust to strategic long-term shifts?
IBM Planning Analytics FAQ
Learn more about IBM Planning Analytics, including its integration with extended planning and analysis (xP&A), scalability for large data volumes, industry-specific benefits, and how QueBIT’s IBM Planning Analytics consulting services help organizations optimize forecasting, budgeting, and performance management.
IBM Planning Analytics connects data from finance, sales, HR, operations, and more into a single platform, enabling extended planning across your enterprise.
Resources for IBM Planning Analytics
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QueBIT Blog: An Actionable Data Strategy
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Planning Analytics Webinars On Demand
Learn How Planning Analytics Improves Business Decision Making
Find out how data and planning analytics can transform the way your company makes crucial decision by reading our eBook 4 steps to better decision making and requesting a meeting with a Planning Analytics expert.