IBM TM1 Cognos user experience white paper 2022

This white paper was written to describe the level of self-service users can expect from TM1. Download the full white paper in PDF below.

This white paper was written to describe the level of self-service users can expect from TM1.

To understand what users can expect from TM1, imagine your organisation’s finance office is a house. In this house, users are busy building different kinds of rooms. Popular rooms include budgeting and forecasting. In an adjacent room, analysis of financials is taking place. Down the hallway a report is being created.

In addition to the rooms, there is furniture and of course, a foundation. The distinction between the rooms and the foundations is important. Without a strong foundation, the rooms will collapse upon themselves. Adding new rooms would be made difficult, as the added weight may not be supported by the structure.

While users build and carry out activities in the rooms, it is the foundations where the engineers or better still, TM1 developers, work. TM1 developers are busy ensuring there is no unnecessary duplication in the foundations. We call this governance. Developers also ensure the foundations are built with integrity so TM1 is efficient and runs lean.

To keep your instance of TM1 running, you will need both users and developers.