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IBM Planning Analytics

Companies today face a variety of challenges, from insecure data sources to inefficient, isolated planning silos. Integrated planning is necessary to meet the increasing requirements. valantic offers you professional consulting to make it easier for you to get started with IBM Planning Analytics.

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Traditional planning is a thing of the past

Integrated planning with AI provides companies with clear competitive advantages

The challenges in today’s planning are many and varied: Exploding amounts of information and data from various sources create uncertainty about the timeliness and reliability of plan data. Planning silos in the form of manually maintained spreadsheets with a lack of visibility and adaptability no longer meet the requirements regarding work efficiency and quality. In addition, individual topics are significantly related and interdependent, so planning data for a particular area is often input for a subsequent planning step. An isolated planning of sub-areas is no longer sufficient. Planning today requires networking, systematic coordination, control, and integration of numerous cross-functional processes.

Let our valantic planning experts advise you, for they have years of experience, and they can facilitate your introduction to IBM’s planning and analysis tool.

valantic offers you excellent, expert advice as well as various training courses. Take a look at our IBM Planning Analytics training courses.

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Planning optimization: Fast and reliable analysis of company data

IBM Planning Analytics: The AI-based, integrated planning solution that helps organizations with basic planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. Built on the powerful online analytical process (OLAP) engine of IBM Cognos Tm1,corporate data is analyzed quickly and reliably.

The flexible and customizable workspace automatically turns data into new insights. With the multidimensional modeling capability in IBM Planning Analytics, the financial team can work efficiently and flexibly, while business users benefit from self-service analysis.

IBM Planning Analytics Key facts

IBM Planning Analytics works fast, and in agile and forward-looking fashion. All the factors for better business results.

Planning based on AI

Plans can be created more efficiently, quickly, and easily with automated modeling, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence support.

Flexible and easy scalability

In times of growing data volumes and data diversity, plans can be adapted quickly and easily in real time without having to change processes.

Well-known spreadsheet interface with additional extensions

The combination of the well-known Microsoft Excel interface and new, more extensive functions ensures that users can find their way around and at the same time perform more powerful analyses than in classic spreadsheets.

Company-wide collaboration and data consistency

Provide a unified, consolidated data foundation across the company, one that serves as a basis for transparent, integrated planning. This eliminates data silos and provides a representative overview of the company’s situation.

One solution for all the applications you need

The solution can be used to gain insights from current business and to plan for the future – all on the basis of a single interface, into which the entire analysis tool portfolio is integrated.

On-premise, in the cloud, or hybrid

Depending on the individual decision, the solution can be operated locally on-premise or also in the cloud, allowing access from anywhere with a consistent database. In addition, it is possible to combine both variants, to create a hybrid operation.

Look into the future

Make predictions and gain insights automatically – directly from the data.

Detailed analyses

Use the what-if analysis of IBM Planning Analytics to test hypotheses and to achieve better calculations, planning, and forecasts.

Apply MS Excel knowledge

The integrated Microsoft Excel interface (IBM Cognos TM1 Excel Client) supports planning and analysis with IBM Planning Analytics.

Take the helm

With IBM Planning Analytics, your team will have the necessary tools for steering your company in the right direction in the future.

Data to work for you

Work with data should be easy and productive – not time-consuming. Enable more users with different skills to work with your data.

Our offerings: The valantic Planning Analytics maturity workshop

  1. 1

    Analyze existing processes

    We evaluate your challenges and the degree of maturity in your company.

  2. 2

    Create a proof of concept

    In the next step, we will work with you to create a proof of concept of a planning process already in place in the company within a few days. The result will show you your individual optimization potential and the flexibility of modern solutions.

  3. 3

    Create a proof of technology (optional)

    We compare best-in-class platforms to help you choose the best solution for your overall project.

  4. 4

    Create a proof of value

    Our experienced consultants will determine the individual added value for your company. From this, budgets associated with an introduction as well as the added value to be achieved in the medium term can be calculated in the form of a return on investment (ROI).

  5. 5

    Holistic consulting approach

    We will assist you as your partner from the definition of the business case to the selection of the platform to the successful introduction. If needed, we also take over the operation of your solution, incorporate adjacent systems, and train your users and modelers. Together, we will ensure the success of the project.

Success stories

References and experience from more than 800 customer projects

More than 25 years’ experience combined with enthusiastic, well-known customers in wholesale, retail, pharma, production, and banking and financial services are the best reference. They rely on the products, solutions, and services of valantic and IBM.

Below you will find a selection of customer projects with IBM Business Analytics solutions in the form of success stories.

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  • SAP
  • SAP SuccessFactors

Variosystems: A new era of recruiting

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud

Gerolsteiner boosts controlling with SAC

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Junge Frau beim Gewichtheben im Sportstudio, toptit dank der Produkte von The Quality Group (TQG). TQG steigert die eigene Performance mit SAP Cloud ERP
  • SAP Business Technology Platform
  • SAP Cloud ERP

TQG secures its performance with SAP Cloud ERP

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  • Bloomreach
  • Pimcore

Digital transformation vgh

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  • Pimcore

Biogena

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Success Story: Verbio optimizes planning & analytics
  • IBM
  • IBM Cognos Analytics
  • IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

VERBIO is running full speed ahead, optimizing planning & analysis

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Webshop it-market website user
  • Elasticsearch
  • RabbitMQ
  • Shopware

50% faster webshop for Cybertrading

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  • Spryker
  • Storyblok
  • Viamedici

WiBU creates central e-commerce touchpoint

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  • IBM
  • IBM Cloud Pak for data
  • IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
  • IBM Watson Studio

A1 Telekom Austria Group Optimizes Financial Planning, Analytics, and Twelve-Month Forecasting

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Website Relaunch - eine Mitarbeiterin am Laptop
  • Elasticsearch
  • Pimcore
  • Shopware

Website Relaunch with Shopware 6

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Working situation at BOS | Success Story Reporting & Planning with SAC
  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud

BOS optimizes Planning and Reporting with SAP SAC

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  • Centric PXM
  • Contentserv/Centric PXM
  • Shopware

Nevermined strengthens brand presence with new B2B Shop

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A woman leans on a railing. Her hands, wrists and ears are adorned with high-quality diamonds from Mandana.
  • Centric PXM
  • Contentserv/Centric PXM
  • Shopware

mandana shines with new online shop

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  • Pimcore

Adelboden-Lenk

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  • Pimcore

Alpbachtal

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  • OutSystems

US Health Group

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  • OutSystems

Micromain

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  • OutSystems

CSA GROUP

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  • OutSystems

Bri Security

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  • OutSystems

Zenioo

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Yak Mat Crew at work. Beautiful landscape. Teamwork
  • OutSystems

YAK MAT Tracker

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  • Pimcore

Graz Tourismus

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  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP S/4HANA

Gira migrates to SAP S/4HANA and optimizes daily reporting

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  • Adobe Commerce
  • Magento

B2C e-commerce platform for mey

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  • Pimcore

Verbier

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  • Adobe Commerce
  • Magento

King in e-commerce

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Krombacher Freunde
  • Bloomreach
  • elastic.io
  • Salesforce

Krombacher establishes direct customer relationship

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  • Akeneo
  • Contentful
  • Frontastic
  • Spryker

Successful collaboration with mobilezone GmbH

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Drei lachende Köche bei der Arbeit | Success Story Burgs | Einführung der SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP
  • SAP Analytics
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP S/4HANA

Burgis analyzes its sales thanks to comprehensive revenue reporting in SAP SAC

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  • Salesforce
  • Splunk

E-commerce excellence for PUMA

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  • SAP
  • SAP Services Cloud

Cloud-based ticketing system for AMC

On this picture you see Tietje Voss, Director Operations & IT of CALIDA

Tietje Voss
Director Operations & IT, CALIDA

”We chose valantic as an implementation partner because we were convinced by both their process consulting expertise and basic technical know-how in the IBM environment.“

Elke Stump
Head of the Controlling Division in the Corporate Management Division, AOK Niedersachsen

”With direct access to current data, we can clarify typical questions right away; previously, we first had to round up the required information, which was time-consuming. This has significantly improved control processes at the whole company.“

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Gregor Karmowski
Head of the Continuous Improvement Process Department, Mosca

”In valantic, we found a partner who understands our business and our daily requirements and proved to be absolutely reliable. “

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René Miribung
Speaker for Finance and Budget, Ministry of the German-speaking Community in Belgium

”valantic's concept won us over, as did the fact that they had extensive expertise from previous projects and had already proven to be a reliable, motivated partner. “

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IBM Gold Partner

IBM has a product portfolio of over 17,000 products. It’s easy to lose your way here! In addition, IBM offers various license models: Products can be licensed individually, by client/server, bundled with special solutions, or as OEM products through third parties. For companies, the question is which model is the right one and what happens when the basic conditions change: Is it possible to switch to a different license model? Cloud-based or on-premise? Thanks to its longstanding Gold partnership with IBM, valantic is the  license professional that can advise companies on all matters, from product selection to license models to the successful implementation, support, and training of users. valantic’s experts can use their expertise to help you answer precisely these questions.

You can find more information about IBM products and services  here.

Your Contact

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Martin W. Vierrath

Your contact for our workshop as well as a non-binding consultation appointment.

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