Overview of Planning Analytics as a Service
IBM Planning Analytics® as a Service is a a fully managed, collaborative, enterprise-scalable budgeting, planning, analytics, profitability, modeling, and reporting solution. These applications are supported by the Planning Analytics in memory engine that provides on-demand analytics of complex multidimensional data in real time.
Features
Fast performance, scalability, and flexibility
Adopt a planning solution that can grow with you. Increase data volumes, number of users, or planning models without impacting performance. This flexibility allows users to build and change plans based on business processes.
Data visualization
Uncover deep insights through robust dashboards. Identify trends and drill down into data with built-in reporting and analysis capabilities.
What-if scenario testing
Test scenarios to determine next steps. Create personal sandboxes to compare different scenarios and test assumptions. See the impact of your decisions before making them.
Constraint-based planning
Improve operational performance. Make better, more optimal business decisions with direct integration of decision optimization. Amid ever-changing business challenges, Planning Analytics helps you make better decisions that consider how to optimally deploy your resources. Optimize scenarios with complex variables and constraints to create the decision model that can be parameterized and reused over time.
Predictive forecasting
Improve the accuracy of your forecasts. Leverage built-in predictive capabilities and put the power of algorithmic forecasting in the hands of users—even those without data science skills—for more accurate, consistent, and timely forecasts.
Workflow
Manage and govern planning workflows with ease. Create customized applications to manage, facilitate, and increase participation in your company’s budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.
Real-time data access and in-memory database
Gain visibility into your data. Provide all users with access to the same data, and trust in a single source of truth. The IBM Planning Analytics® as a Service OLAP in-memory database, the Planning Analytics Engine, connects directly to source data and refreshes in real-time.
Getting support
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