IBM Planning Analytics/TM1 Cloud Migraton and Managed Services

Organizations interested in moving IBM Planning Analytics/TM1 and Planning Analytics Workspace to the cloud can choose between IBM SaaS and 3rd party cloud options. Many longtime or large-scale Planning Analytics/TM1 customers choose 3rd party cloud to take advantage of a variety of benefits including:

• Direct access to TM1 backend and client applications

• Retain control of performance tuning and architecture

• Retain existing authentication and SSO without federation

• Easy deployments and upgrades

• Automated backup for DR

• Easy integration of IBM Cognos Analytics

• Deploy Planning Analytics to same network as analytics and data warehouse applications

• Easy connection to on-premise and AWS data sources

• Reduce ingress and egress costs of data moving from cloud to cloud

• Deploy PA to approved cloud vendor

PMsquare, the market leader in Planning Analytics/TM1 cloud architecture and management, understands these challenges and has invested heavily to solve these problems and easily migrate your Planning Analytics environment to AWS. Your new environment unlocks the benefits of cloud while giving you control and confidence in your Cognos environment. Features include:

• Automated provisioning and configuration of Planning Analytics/TM1 servers

• Automated provisioning and configuration of Planning Analytics Workspace

• Easy upgrades

• Disaster recovery

• Cloud native management of infrastructure

Assessment and Implementation

Our skilled team of Planning Analytics/TM1 and AWS architects can quickly assess your current environment and provide a roadmap for rapid cloud migration. Your assessment includes:

• Architecture diagrams of new Planning Analytics/TM1 on AWS environment

• Modernization and refactoring of Planning Analytics/TM1 deployment

• Delivery timeline

• Cost estimate

Following implementation by our world class Planning Analytics/TM1 and AWS experts you can take over administration of the environment or transition to a managed services contract.

Managed Services

PMsquare managed services turns your AWS Planning Analytics/TM1 environment into a touch free SaaS-like experience. Our experts administer, monitor, update and patch the environment to ensure your focus remains on accurate and timely forecasting, not on software upkeep.

Migration Plus with Trifacta and Snowflake

Migration Plus is for customers looking to move data warehousing and data prep to the cloud alongside Planning Analytics/TM1 to create a complete data prep, data analytics and forecasting system. PMsquare is proud to partner with Trifacta and Snowflake for this offering. Trifacta is the world leader in AI driven self-service data prep to modernize your data pipeline and solve data bottlenecks upstream of your analytics. And Snowflake - well, you know who Snowflake is! Migration Plus includes:

• Assessment of existing data bottlenecks

• Assessment of existing DW structure

• POC of Trifacta, Snowflake or both

• Integration of Trifacta and Snowflake with Cognos Analytics