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Built on OLAP technology, TM1 is a Business Intelligence Solution that enables users to quickly view and understand large sets of complex multidimensional business data. With TM1, analysts, managers, and executives can view data across multiple dimensions and drill down into the specific data underlying those summaries. Based on client-server architecture, TM1 also enables multiple users to connect to and use TM1 for real-time updates and what-if analyses, making it easy for your organization to work as a team. |
Key features
Single Platform: Planning, budgeting, forecasting, what-if analysis, reporting and consolidations on one platform
Planning Template: TM1's Planning template, capturing best practices for planning, walks you through setting up a budget or plan. You generate budget versions and input top-down goals and bottoms-up plans into the database with the provided worksheets.
Modeling: Ability to recalculate business models on the fly, supporting highly interactive planning and what-if analysis. Users can look forward and ask the difficult what-if questions for understanding future challenges and opportunities, receiving responses instantly.
Excel interfaces: TM1 has been designed specifically to work from within Excel, so there is no need to learn a new application or maintain data in multiple applications.
Integration with critical systems: Import data from ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or from other data warehouses.
Real-time multi-user read/write and what-if analyses: TM1 has the best capabilities for planning type calculations, particularly multi-currency. TM1 is entirely RAM based: users can calculate anything they want, on demand, in real time. Even what-if analyses are performed in real time: your users can change an input value and view the ripple effect throughout the model, immediately.
Actionable alerts: Timely alerts generated from your company's analyses and business processes enable it to be proactive with respect to its business environment.
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TM1 on The OLAP Survey 4
As mentioned in the list of key features, TM1 is the single solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics/reporting, all on one platform. This is a reason TM1 made to the top rank in many areas in The OLAP Survey 4-the latest edition of the largest and most detailed survey of OLAP products to date. Of the 42 products represented in the survey (including Applix TM1, BusinessObjects, Cognos PowerPlay, Essbase, MIS Alea, Microsoft AS, Oracle Discoverer, and SAP BW), TM1 ranked top in Business goal achieved, Faster and more accurate reporting, Speed of deployment, Least number of product technical problems, and many more. |
Updated on 28 August 2006
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