Many organizations today rely on powerful tools for financial consolidation and analysis, but struggle to connect them into a coherent end-to-end chain. The result is data breaks, manual rework and delays in decision-making. The combination of IBM Controller and IBM Planning Analytics addresses these challenges by building an integrated chain from source data to decision support, without disruption or re-entry.
IBM Controller: the foundation of financial consolidation
IBM Controller is a solution dedicated to financial consolidation, designed to collect, validate and structure data from multiple source systems such as ERP, General Ledger and data warehouses.
The solution enables the production of reliable financial statements - profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, movement statements and disclosures - while ensuring controls, validations and full traceability of entries, including consolidation journals.
From consolidation to performance management: moving beyond static reporting
Historically, data produced during consolidation has often been consumed through static reports or isolated Excel files, limiting its analytical potential.
Today, finance leaders expect more: understanding variances, analyzing performance drivers and translating financial results into actionable business insights.
Financial Analytics Publish: the key link between Controller and Planning Analytics
Financial Analytics Publish (FAP) plays a central role in this integrated chain. It automatically publishes all data from IBM Controller - including consolidation entries - into IBM Planning Analytics.
This native integration ensures full data continuity without manual reprocessing and guarantees that analyses are based on official consolidated figures.
Multidimensional analysis and scenarios with IBM Planning Analytics
Once consolidated data is available in IBM Planning Analytics, users can perform multidimensional analysis, build interactive dashboards and explore results across multiple business dimensions.
The solution also enables scenario simulations, impact projections and the translation of accounting results into performance indicators that are directly usable by finance teams and the business.
An integrated chain serving decision-making
The integration of IBM Controller and IBM Planning Analytics makes it possible to build a complete analytical chain based on a single source of truth and continuously up-to-date data.
Organizations benefit from greater consistency of figures, shorter decision cycles and an increased ability to turn financial data into concrete action.
The AEXIS vision: from data to action
At AEXIS Belgium, The Netherlands and AEXIS France, we have been supporting organizations for over 30 years in implementing IBM Business Analytics solutions such as Controller and Planning Analytics.
Our approach goes beyond tool integration to build end-to-end analytical value chains aligned with business challenges and focused on decision-making.
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Last updated on Jan 27, 2025