Name: IBM Planning Analytics
Brand: IBM

Overview

Navigate change faster

Your FP&A software should help you lead your team to faster growth and smarter analysis—not limit collaboration and slow you down with outdated models.

Powered by the IBM® TM1® database, IBM Planning Analytics helps you unify your business planning in one governed platform, infused with AI guidance. Eliminate manual models, spot risks sooner and make decisions that keep your numbers ahead of the trends.

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From Reactive to Proactive: A Finance Leader’s Guide to AI

From FP&A to procure-to-pay, AI is streamlining workflows, predicting anomalies and enabling smarter decisions.

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IDC 2026 report: Enterprise Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Enterprise Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Applications.

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BARC Score 2025 Integrated Planning & Analytics (IP&A)

IBM Planning Analytics recognized as a Market Leader

Features Enterprise‑grade planning and forecasting

Boost your team’s speed and accuracy with AI demand forecasting—right inside IBM Planning Analytics.

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Leadspace for AI Forecast Planning Analytics

Automate data collection, consolidation and analysis to get performance insights in real-time.

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Leadspace for Financial Planning Analytics arabic

Keep Excel. Add TM1 power. Discover how PAfE delivers real‑time data, advanced analysis and seamless collaboration—right inside Excel.

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Meet your new AI forecasting partner. Explore how the AI Assistant summarizes drivers, trends and confidence ranges in seconds.

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Use cases

Planning for every part of the business

Financial planning & analysis

Streamline budgeting and forecasting with real‑time insights, and ensure full alignment across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.

Forecast with precision

Supply chain planning

Plan demand, optimize inventory, run unlimited scenarios—and turn disruptions into opportunities.

Strengthen supply resilience

ESG & sustainability performance

Plan, simulate and optimize sustainability efforts at any scale, even down to full PCF calculations.

Advance ESG strategy

Sales planning

Get real‑time sales performance insights, automate territory planning and grow market share.

Accelerate revenue growth

Human resources

Unify and automate HR workflows across employment, compensation, bonuses, headcount and benefits planning in a single platform.

Streamline HR planning

IT planning and budgeting

Align IT with enterprise goals and gain real‑time visibility into resource allocation, spending, lifecycles, ownership and asset utilization.

Optimize IT spend

Marketing performance

Transform your marketing planning with real‑time insights, AI‑driven forecasts and smarter decision‑making.

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Case studies

Real customers. Measurable impact.

Solar Coca-Cola

Solar Coca‑Cola’s growing scale and decentralized operations made financial planning slow and manual. With IBM Planning Analytics, the team gained real‑time, granular insights—transforming reporting, accelerating decisions and freeing finance teams to focus on strategy instead of spreadsheets.

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25%

time freed up by eliminating manual spreadsheet modeling

10x

increased overall reporting output with zero increase in headcount

Novolex

Novolex needed to respond quickly to shifting demand but lacked alignment between sales, production and inventory planning. With IBM Planning Analytics, the company unified forecasts across locations—cutting planning cycles, reducing excess inventory and enabling faster, data‑driven decisions.

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83%

faster supply chain forecasts

16%

saved in excess inventory

Ministry of Defence Services

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) needed to streamline shared finance, HR and procurement services across fragmented systems. By upgrading to IBM Planning Analytics, the MoD is better able to perform in-year management of the budget and forecasts for longer-term planning.

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190,000

armed forces service personnel supported by smarter shared services

enterprise platform, replacing 4 legacy systems

ICBC Argentina

ICBC Argentina faced extreme economic volatility and relied on more than 100 spreadsheets for planning. With IBM Planning Analytics, the bank accelerated budgeting and forecasting, reduced manual errors and gained the speed and flexibility needed to model complex financial scenarios with confidence.

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50%

less time to produce bank stress test reports, from four to two weeks

Jettime

Jettime’s complex crew scheduling relied on rigid spreadsheets that couldn’t keep pace with changing flight plans. With IBM Planning Analytics, the airline optimized workforce planning—cutting planning cycles from days to hours, improving accuracy and delivering significant cost savings.

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figures saved on future workforce costs

hours for forecasting crew pairings, down from 6 days

Swisscom

Facing pricing pressure and slow, manual planning, Swisscom needed faster, more integrated insight across finance and operations. Using IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos, the telecom unified planning and reporting—cutting reporting time, reducing costs and improving performance at scale.

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50%

less preparation time for month-end reports after engaging with IBM

30%

reducation in systems operations, leading to cost savings

Integrations

Seamless integration across your enterprise

SAP Connector

Enable fast, secure, bidirectional data exchange between Planning Analytics and SAP systems using the Planning Analytics Connector for SAP. Access SAP BW, S/4HANA and HANA Cloud through standard OData gateways, maintain data consistency and scale with multiple encrypted connections—without persisting data.

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watsonx Orchestrate

Use intelligent agents to trigger planning tasks, run forecasts and update data through natural‑language commands—streamlining financial workflows and accelerating decision cycles.

Resources

Learn more about smarter business planning

Explore demos, guides, reports and expert insights that help finance and business teams get more value from AI‑powered planning, forecasting and analysis with IBM Planning Analytics.

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IBM Planning Analytics vs. Anaplan

While Anaplan may have been a reliable choice in the past, see how IBM Planning Analytics can give you a competitive edge today.

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IBM Planning Analytics vs. Pigment

While Pigment can be a viable option, see how IBM® Planning Analytics sets a high standard in performance, security and AI-driven insights to equip your business for long-term success.

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