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Our Solutions

Platforms built around your team to make your data work for you.

Why Together

Planning and reporting, working as one.

We connect Planning Analytics and Power BI deliberately, so the numbers always match.

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Benefits of IBM Planning Analytics

  • Enable faster, high-impact scenario modeling with a centralized, collaborative planning solution.
  • Simplify complex budgeting and forecasting models to adapt to market changes.
  • Empower finance and business teams with self-service analytics, reporting, and what-if modeling.
  • Eliminate disconnected spreadsheets and manual consolidation for a single, trusted source of truth.
  • Streamline decision-making through integration with Microsoft Excel and web-based interfaces.

IBM Planning Analytics

We don’t just install a planning tool. We work alongside your finance and business teams, from the first conversation to long after go-live, so Planning Analytics fits the way you plan.

How we work with your team

1Listen firstWe start with how your team plans today — your spreadsheets, processes and pain points — not the software’s defaults.
2Design and buildModels built around your process, including migration from legacy or spreadsheet planning and integration with your source systems.
3Roll out with your peopleWorkflows and workspaces set up for each role, with onboarding and live coaching so your team adopts it with confidence.
4Support and growSLA-based support and performance tuning as your models and needs grow, so the system keeps earning its place.

How we walk with you

  • Consultants who know your build stay close to it.
  • Your team can run and extend what we build.
  • Proactive guidance, not just ticket queues.
  • Small issues fixed before they become the reason a tool falls out of use.
Microsoft Power BI dashboard

Benefits of Power BI

  • Simplifies data analytics with reports and dashboards without deep technical skills.
  • Empowers decision-makers with dynamic visuals that bring your data to life.
  • Improves collaboration and transparency across departments.
  • Integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft tools like Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

Microsoft Power BI

We don’t just build dashboards. We work with your team to understand the decisions you need to make, then shape your data into reporting people actually use.

How we work with your team

1Understand your questionsWe begin with the decisions you make and the KPIs that matter, not with the charts.
2Connect and modelData from your different sources brought into one reliable model, with proper data modelling and DAX.
3Design with your usersDashboards and reports designed around the people who use them, with row-level security set up properly.
4Hand over and supportTraining so your team can filter, drill down and extend reports themselves, with support whenever you need it.

How we walk with you

  • Self-serve by design, so you don’t need to call us for every change.
  • Your team can extend the reports after handover.
  • Secure sharing across teams, set up from day one.
  • Ongoing support from consultants who know your reports.
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What we set up

  • Data warehousing
  • Automated pipelines & refreshes
  • SQL & Python
  • Microsoft Power Automate workflows: approvals, alerts and refreshes without the manual steps
  • RPA where it saves time

Data Centralisation & Automation

We unlock the full power of Planning Analytics and Power BI by centralizing your data and automating workflows with SQL, Python, Microsoft Power Automate, and more — so teams spend less time on spreadsheets and more time on insights that drive decisions.

Before and after

✕BeforeHours lost to copy-pasting between spreadsheets and systems that don’t talk.
✓AfterCentralised data and automated workflows, with your time freed up.
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Solution

IBM Planning Analytics

We help organizations design, deploy, and optimize IBM Planning Analytics models to simplify planning and empower data-driven decisions.

1Model design and buildMirrors how your team actually plans
2MigrationFrom legacy or spreadsheet-based planning
3Workflow and workspace set-upReady for your team from day one
4IntegrationWith your source systems
5Performance tuningFor large or complex cubes

Every build starts with your existing process, not the software's defaults.

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Why Together

Planning and reporting, working as one.

Used separately, planning tools and BI dashboards often tell two different stories. We connect them deliberately — so what you forecast in Planning Analytics is the same number you see in your Power BI dashboard, with no manual reconciliation in between.

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