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1. IBM Planning Analy-cs
January 13th, 2016
Candace Taylor – Director of Marke4ng, Cresco Intl
Mike Mackevicius – IBM Pre Sales Technical Specialist
Sanjeev Da?a – Prac4ce Director, Cresco Intl

2. Link to Video with David Corbe?
What is IBM Planning Analy-cs?
Planning Analy4cs is a state of the art built-for-cloud planning and analy4c
solu4on
ü High speed in-memory data engine
ü Business Intelligence (Cognos) capabili4es
ü Watson Analy4cs part of the DNA
Speed- Start Instantly & Grow as needed
Automat plans, Analyses and Reports
Agility- Adapt plans and analyses to changing condi4ons
Align financial plans with corporate objec4ves linked to
opera4onal tac4cs and market events
Foresight- Analy4cs for everyone. High availability and user base to
explore, visualize internal and external data and an4cipate the
future.

3. ü Office of Finance and LOB Organiza2ons trying to improve cycle 2me
and staff around planning, budge2ng and forecas2ng, analysis and
repor2ng
ü Struggling with spreadsheets and over reliance on manual efforts
ü Mid-size companies (less than 100 users) to Large Enterprises
ü Improve Performance of current budge2ng/planning system
ü Create compelling Dashboards and visualize financial data
ü Keep Spreadsheet look and feel and explore other op2ons
ü Use Spreading techniques and create Alternate Scenario Methods
ü Hassel free setup with Cloud Op2ons
Who is Planning Analy-cs for?

4. Synchronize objects
from any data source
Collabora-on and
Pin to share & reuse
Rich interac-ve
workspace
Natural language discovery & manipula-on
Planning Analy-cs Workspace
Best in Breed Planning // Easy, intui4ve, graduated
Organize into mul--tabbed
workbooks
Source: IBM

5. Planning Analy-cs Workspace
Business Led Design // Web based, Easy, Intui4ve
Use templates to
accelerate design
Start a project
Visual applica-on and
data model design
Built-in planning
& analy-c
intelligence
Source: IBM

6. IBM Planning Analy-cs – AWendee Ques-on
Are you considering to migrate your current
Analy4cs soXware onto a Cloud PlaYorm?

7. Planning Analy-cs Demo

8. Planning Analy-cs - Value of SaaS
Savings Gains
Low Entry Cost Speed to Value
Reduced Risk Agility
OPEX vs. CAPEX Elas4city
Minimal Infrastructure Cost World Class Solu4on
Redundancy Always on the latest and greatest
version
Lower IT costs Be?er Support
SLA
Source: IBM

9. Benefits of Planning Analy-cs on Cloud
ü Enterprise deployments have Tiered Architecture includes Mul4-
Tenant applica4ons 4er and Single Tenant Cognos TM1 DB Tier
ü Applica4on Tier is deployed using con4nuous development prac4ces
and will be upgraded on a schedule determined by IBM
ü IBM Customers will gain access to new features and func4onali4es
frequently. Customers will receive no4fica4ons in advance of
upgrades
ü Customers will not have the op4on to defer upgrades to the
Applica4on Tier as they are shared with all customers

10. Benefits of Planning Analy-cs on Cloud
cont’d
Standard and Premium Deployment Op4ons for TM1 Database Tier
Premium TM1 Database Tier op4on
Ø Dedicated, Private Virtual or Physical Environment
Ø 512GB or RAM and
Ø Upgrade Flexibility
Standard TM1 Database Tier Op4on
Ø Single Tenant Virtual Environment (Runs on Mul4-Tenant Physical
Infrastructure)
Ø 64GB of RAM
Ø Upgrade Flexibility
(Start with Standard and Upgrade to Premium as Needed)

11. Cloud Availability for Planning Analy-cs
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contractual agreement ensuring a High
Availability cloud service.
Source: IBM

12. Planning Analy-cs Pricing
Source: IBM
§ #1 User of Part # D156ELL
§ #10 Users of Part # D1JT9LL
§ Monthly Contracts, 1-3-5 Year Contracts
Licensing ques4ons: sales@crescointl.com

13. ü Data Scalability
ü Reduce Administra2on and Simplify the applica2on landscape
ü Get Real Time Reports and Avoid Mul2ple Job Servers
ü Reduce Hardware, Lower Cost of Maintenance
ü Meet Business Needs with Dashboards and Mobile Delivery
ü Con2nued Licenses Trade Ups for Contributor Licenses
Migra-ng from EP to Planning Analy-cs

14. > Automates manual, spreadsheet-based planning, budge2ng,
forecas2ng, repor2ng and analysis
> Uncovers predic2ve insights automa2cally from your data
> Links opera2onal tac2cs to financial plans, synthesizes informa2on,
infers trends
> Enables dimensional analysis and calcula2ons for in-depth
profitability and scenario analy2cs
> Facilitates rapid on-cloud deployment across the organiza2on
Recap // IBM Planning Analy-cs

15. Q&A

16. > IBM Cognos Analy2cs – What’s New in IBM Cognos BI Webcast Next
Wednesday, January 20
. Register now: bit.ly/1JKDWTS
> IBM Planning Analy2cs Workshops
. Foster City, CA – February 10
. Dallas, TX – February 25
. Boston, MA – March 1
. Register today: crescointl.com/events
Upcoming events

17. Thanks for joining!
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