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Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos TM1 provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data. Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server, IBM Cognos TM1 has a proven track record supporting financial performance management.

• TM1 provides 'speed of thought' response to driver-based what-if scenarios and self-service analysis of multi-dimensional data.
• Ease of use, thanks to a development environment that enables users to create sophisticated applications with no need for programming or traditional IT skills
• A patented in-memory calculation engine that provides compact data storage and exceptionally fast performance
• Model design and data access that presents business information in familiar formats
• An intuitive, flexible approach, which enables users to easily express complex, multi-dimensional business rules (for example, cost allocation rules which span multiple cost centers or products)
• Built-in data integration capabilities to access IT-managed systems of record
• Strong integration with IBM Cognos 8 Planning, IBM Cognos 8 Controller, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint.

New "Active Forms" Simplify Development IBM Cognos TM1 9.4 provides new capabilities for TM1-based application development, through "Active Forms." Innovating on TM1's Excel-based application authoring capability, Active Forms provides a number of new or updated capabilities to power users and end-users alike:

• Report rows with asymmetrical drill-down
• Formula-driven row definition
• Intuitive Excel-based formatting
• Action Buttons for navigation and process integration
• Functional parity in both thick and thin client deployment
• Server-side zero suppression

• Enterprise-Ready Web Deployment - Take advantage of maintenance-free reporting and input template creation for both Excel and Web environments. IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer has moved to an XML format for view definition and rendering, providing an easy way to create programmatic maintenance and deployment routines.
• SOX compliance - Improve product compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley-related regulations for GRC (governance, risk and compliance). A new logging facility captures all non-data maintenance activity for comprehensive audit capabilities.
• Global Support - Full Unicode support means TM1 9.4 accommodates expanded string lengths beyond 255 characters. Two new languages - simplified Chinese and Japanese - have also been introduced.