Upgrade Service of IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning (EP) to IBM Planning Analytics
Your organisation has been using IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning (aka Cognos Planning, or EP for short) for years. As your organisation grows, so does the number of users, the amount of data, and more critically, the complexity of the budgeting, planning and forecasting requirements. Issues relating to performance, scalability and inability to model the solution closely to new and complex business requirements start to surface.
To protect your investment in EP while meeting your business users' expectation and business requirements, one possibility is to migrate your planning models from EP to IBM Planning Analytics (PA) . The main benefits are:
- Better change management process as the look and feel of Planning Analytics interface can be made to resemble EP. This means that the learning curve of your users will be smoother!
- Dimensions and elements can be reproduced from EP to PA. Data can also be migrated over to PA cubes.
- Most importantly, PA allows you to model new business requirements easily through its flexible features. You can also choose to revamp your planning models with more drivers, more complex calculations, more dimensions and much more data without performance degradation!
- More powerful and flexible reporting tools for you to analyse your actuals and plan data! Let's face it, EP isn't great at reporting. And this is where PA shines. We can enhance your planning models into a planning AND reporting platform that users across your organisation can use! One software platform, infinite possibilities.
Our consultants are experienced in both EP and PA. We will be glad to provide a free assessment of your existing EP model and recommend an upgrade approach. Please contact us through this form to find out more!
