Cognos Planning
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By: Philip Howard
Classification: Product Evaluation
Cognos Planning is, as its name suggests, a planning application, which supports
budgeting, forecasting and the coordination of financial and operational planning
across the enterprise. It is not limited to financial departments but is also suitable
for deployment in operational departments for such things as sales planning and
HR planning. Moreover, Cognos does not regard planning as a set of independent
exercises but rather than as a series of activities that relate to and inform each
other. In this release of Cognos Planning therefore, a major feature is the integration
of different planning activities.