Cognos Planning (EPS) vs TM1
Written by: Ankit G Cognos planning (EPS) was the flagship planning and budgeting solution from Cognos until Cognos took over Applix and hence TM1. Now they are promoting both the products as planning and budgeting solution. I have installed and evaluated both but did not find much differences, as long as application is concerned (in order to recommend one over the other). Some points I found worth noting are: 1) EPS has got a better workflow management and matured front end, hence if you have large number of users spread across various locations who want to collaborate and enter planning data, EPS would be a better solution than TM1. 2) EPS works on a 32 bit engine. Analyst has difficulty while loading large slices of data in contiguous RAM. Contributor also moves large blocks of data in and out of datastore in the form of xml. Hence scalability and performance is a problem in case the data is in very large volumes. TM1 uses 64 bit architecture and hence faster while dealing large amo