IBM Cognos TM1 Consulting

IBM Cognos® TM1® is an enterprise planning software platform that can transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budgeting to reporting, scorecarding, analysis and forecasting.  Cognos TM1 enables you to collaborate on plans, budgets and forecasts. You can analyze data, and create models – including profitability models – to reflect a constantly evolving business environment. In addition, integrated scorecards and strategy management capabilities help you monitor performance metrics and align resources and initiatives with corporate objectives and market events.

With its Excel-friendly front-end, versatile real-time server and accessible web facilities, TM1 is a natural choice for many companies looking for a state of the art approach to Corporate Performance Management, including budgeting, planning and reporting.

ACG’s Cognos TM1 consulting expertise and comprehensive implementation methodology stem from 20 years of multi-industry experience.  ACG’s Cognos TM1 consulting team has designed, developed, and implemented Cognos TM1 systems and applications across a wide variety of industries including finance, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.  Our history of successful and long-lasting relationships with Fortune 500 companies reflects our vast understanding of business management processes as well as our value added design style.

ACG has implemented custom Cognos TM1 applications and interfaces in the critical areas of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, data analysis, and reporting.  We have created sophisticated data import routines to feed TM1 from numerous source systems.  Our consultants have played an intricate role in every phase of project life cycles from analysis and design to implementation and quality assurance testing.

Another area in which ACG’s Cognos TM1 team has extensive experience is in the maintenance and enhancement of existing TM1 applications.  We have handled fiscal year application roll-outs for enormous and extremely complex TM1 applications for very large corporations.  We have worked closely with corporate IT departments and successfully eliminated delays, internationally, resulting from slow network traffic between users and remote servers.

Whether you’re looking for the design and implementation of a new system to increase your business’s analytical and reporting capabilities, improve your planning and forecasting strategy, or have an existing application that is in need of skilled maintenance and/or enhancement, ACG’s decades of experience and demonstrated ability to produce solutions makes us extraordinarily well-qualified to handle any and all of your Cognos TM1 needs.

ACG offers assistance in every phase of the application lifecycle: startup, maintenance, enhancements, and upgrades. 


To learn more about how IBM Cognos TM1 can address your business challenges Contact ACG