IBM Planning Analytics is now available as a service on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Organizations of all sizes are empowered to make smarter decisions, automate processes, collaborate effectively, and unlock the true potential of their data, all while benefiting from the scale, agility, and profitability of the AWS cloud.

A solution of planning, analysis, and reporting fast, flexible, and based on artificial intelligence accessible to everyone, everywhere, is now available in AWS.

IBM Planning Analytics as a Service is already available. This offer is a solution for budgeting, planning, analysis, cost-effectiveness, modeling and reporting fully managed, collaborative, and scalable for enterprises.

In may of 2022, IBM officially announced its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer products IBM SaaS in AWS. The association IBM/AWS provides customers with the opportunity to quickly get started with the IBM products SaaS on AWS infrastructure while enjoy the native experience of AWS and the integration of AWS services, ready to use.

As part of the strategy of IBM, we are committed to providing customers with the ability to run their solutions for planning, reporting and analysis in the cloud of your choice. That means becoming more agnostic on the support of cloud providers in addition to our own cloud by IBM. 

What is Planning Analytics as a service?

With IBM Planning Analytics as a Service , organizations can achieve a fast throughput, scalability, high availability and flexibility, all in a single platform, to optimize and to better integrate the planning, budgeting and forecasting throughout the company. This helps to increase the precision and the consistency of the forecasts (for the time that eliminates spreadsheets and manual, error-prone) to gain business agility and knowledge in real-time. In addition, with access to Planning Analytics as a Service, organizations can use the same user interfaces easy to use with which they are familiar: Excel, Workspace, Spreadsheet Services and more.

Why plan the analytics as a service?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud platform more comprehensive and widely adopted in the world, which offers more than 200 full-service data centers around the world. Millions of clients, including startups faster growth, larger companies and major government agencies, are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster.

Planning Analytics-as-a-Service allows you to host and manage all your workloads on a single platform, available to your users wherever they reside. The collaboration equip you with a platform of asset management industry leader in IBM, backed by the scale, agility, and profitability of AWS.

With Planning Analytics, organizations can go beyond financial planning to help departments such as supply chain and operations to manage projects to achieve higher ROI. With a database-oriented cells that is closely integrated with the Excel interface, you get the functionality they need to Excel while gets capacities powerful as the analysis, planning and multi-dimensional. Get more than just a planning tool with a set of solutions that are understandable and easy-to-access, designed to support each phase of the life cycle analytical, creating a one-stop shop for all your planning needs and analysis.

What are the benefits?

• Performance, scalability, and flexibility fast: Provision an instant solution to business planning with updates without downtime and SLA industry standard that can scale with your business as it increases the volume of data, the number of users or the planning models, without affecting the performance. Planning Analytics enables users to create and change plans in function of the business processes, which illustrates an experience of flexible and intuitive user that is created for you, taking into account the context of the real world.
• Data visualization: Discover in-depth knowledge through solid panels. Create dashboards and metrics, including ad-hoc reports and visualizations convincing, to share financial metrics effectively, and to compare the actual results with the performance objectives to improve the financial reports. Identify trends and dig into the data with built-in capabilities for reporting and analysis.
• Tests of hypothetical scenarios: Powered by AI, with Planning Analytics can predict the results as a function of trends in evolution, or knowledge and predictive analysis of hypothetical scenarios in depth to test alternative assumptions. Create sandboxes personal to compare different scenarios. See the impact of your decisions before you make them.
• Planning-based restrictions: improve operational performance. Take business decisions better and more optimal with the direct integration of the optimization decisions. In the midst of business challenges are constantly changing, Planning Analytics helps you make better decisions as they consider how to implement optimal resources. Optimize the scenarios with complex variables and constraints to create the decision model that can be parameterized and reused over time.
• Prognostic predictive: To improve the accuracy and speed of their forecasts. With predictive capacities for integrated, you can identify and assess trends and patterns of seasonality in historical values and use the power of the forecasting algorithm, even without knowledge of data science, in order to obtain more accurate forecasts, consistent, and timely.
• Workflow automation: Manage and govern easily workflows to ensure a planning process fluid and optimized. Create custom applications to manage, facilitate and increase the participation and collaboration in the processes of elaboration of budgets, forecasts and reports for your company.
• Access to data in real-time and in-memory database: Get visibility into your data. All users have access to the same data and can rely on a single source of truth. The database in-memory OLAP Planning Analytics (the analysis engine of planning) are connected directly to the source data and is updated in real-time.

How to get started with IBM Planning Analytics as a Service

Experience the ease-of-use, scalability and fast performance with a solution of planning, analysis, and reporting of the latest generation based on artificial intelligence.

Check out our documentation to get started today with IBM Planning Analytics as a Service. You can also talk with your local IBM representative or Business Partner for more information .

For more information on Planning Analytics as a Service and how to begin, please contact us.