Volatility, uncertainty and risk have been with us for years – and they’re not going away any time soon. But most planning teams, whether in Finance, Operations, HR, Sales or elsewhere in the organization, still spend an inordinate amount of time on manual, spreadsheet-based process – collecting consolidating and validating data before they can even begin to analyze it.

In response, leading organizations are seeking faster, more flexible solutions to deliver deeper insights into both financial and operational performance. Too often, however, the believe they have to chose between the ease of use and fast deployment of a cloud solution or the powerful analytics capabilities traditionally available only in on-premise solutions. But not they don’t have to choose. Now they can have it all with IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson. One solution – multiple deployment options.