IBM Cognos® Financial Performance Management (FPM) solutions can free the office of finance from the burden of manual, spreadsheet-based processes with powerful capabilities to the meet the complex needs of any finance organization. IBM Cognos FPM solutions allow organizations the ability to automate their close, consolidate & reporting processes; perform driver-based budgeting & planning, ‘what if’ scenario modeling & multidimensional profitability analysis; in addition to automating their internal management reporting and external regulatory reporting.