There’s TM1, and then there’s everything else. That’s because TM1 is much more than just another planning, budgeting and forecasting application. Its patented technology allows you to write-back and perform real-time what-if analysis on any amount of data, which no other product can do.

TM1 eliminates the frustration of complicated, disconnected software, and the limitations, time and labor involved in spreadsheet-based business planning and analysis.

Thousands of enterprises use TM1 for business performance management, its tight integration with Excel, its rapid implementation times, real-time, read-write response, and adaptability. TM1 provides a collaborative read/write solution for teams across your business.

Multiple surveys have validated TM1's high levels of user satisfaction and realized benefits. TM1 has scored the highest rating in business benefits achieved, fastest query time, fastest implementation, dataload/pre-calculation, and least number of technical problems, according to The OLAP Survey 5.

This Page’s Contents
Rapid Implementations Yields High ROI
Flexible “What-If” Modeling Meets Changing Business Plans
Microsoft Certified spreadsheet integration for a familiar environment
How did TM1 Fare in the OLAP Survey 5?
TM1 Technology Fast Facts

Rapid implementations yield high ROI
Faster implementations mean lower costs and higher ROI. So how fast are TM1 implementations? According to the independent OLAP Survey 5, Applix TM1 has the shortest average implementation times in the industry.


Flexible “What-If” Modeling Meets Changing Business Plans
Applix TM1 works the way users think. It’s one-of-a-kind real-time multi-cube architecture allows you to build you business models, including hierarchies and data flow logic, right into the structures – and then change assumptions on the fly to give you real-time “what-if” scenarios. No other product on the market offers this level of end-user driven data modeling and analysis.

Microsoft Certified spreadsheet integration for a familiar environment
Applix TM1 was the first OLAP product to integrate with spreadsheets – more than 20 years ago. Today, TM1 continues to be the leader, providing an unparalleled user experience that feels familiar and comfortable to spreadsheet and web users.


TM1 Technology Fast Facts
TM1 is a unified application which streamlines the entire Business Performance Management/Corporate Performance Management process including planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. You can access, analyze, and visualize corporate data from any part of the business at anytime and anywhere - all on one application for a single version of the truth.

TM1 is based on OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) technology which enables users to quickly view and understand large sets of complex business data. Analysts, managers and executives can view data across multiple dimensions and drill down into the specific data underlying those summaries. TM1 does all the calculating in RAM, providing much faster response times - up to a million times faster - compared to OLAP engines that store their data on a disk drive.



Key Features of TM1

• A unified application - addresses all of your business performance management needs including planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analysis.
  
• Excel and Web interfaces - Perform analysis, view reports, and update TM1 data using either Excel or Web user interfaces. Business users leverage their existing Excel skill set to author, publish, and deploy web pages to TM1 Web.
  
• Flexibility to allow you to customize and perform real-time "what-if" modeling to meet rapidly changing business plans.
  
• Integration with critical systems - Import data from ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or from other data warehouses.
  
• Microsoft Certification - TM1 not only provides an easy-to-use interface through Excel, but it also works with ease in the Microsoft environment, supporting its platforms, including high end, and SQL database format as well as its database connectivity.
  
• Scalability - TM1's 64-bit capability, combined with its ability to support multiple servers, multiple cubes, multi-threaded processing and multi-user data updating, is designed to scale in order to support increased users and/or increased availability.
  
• Actionable alerts - Alert notifications and collaboration features provide structure to enterprise planning, and report approval processes. TM1 Workflow coordinates a multitude of user-centric tasks for concurrent processes and ensures on-schedule management of your processes.
  
• Multi-user collaboration - Hundreds of users can simultaneously connect to and use TM1 for real-time updates and audit trails.
  
• Standards-based Integration - TM1 supports a wide range of data standards with its API structure and compliance with MS OLE DB for OLAP.
  
• Security - down to the cell level with multiple privilege levels, combined with thorough audit trails.
  
• Disaster Recovery - is automatic; no changes are lost in power failure.