Case Study: A1 Telekom achieves faster, AI-powered financial planning with valantic and IBM Planning Analytics

A1 Telekom cuts financial planning from 3 weeks to 1.5 hours with Valantic

A1 Telekom, a leading communications provider in Austria, faced inefficient financial planning and forecasting processes. Manual data analysis and time-consuming routines hampered their agility and strategic business planning, particularly for their regular twelve-month sales forecasts. To address this challenge, they worked with vendor valantic to implement a solution utilizing IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Watson Studio.

The solution implemented by valantic integrated these technologies to create a fully automated, ML-based forecasting process. This automation dramatically reduced the time required for monthly sales forecasting from three weeks to just 1.5 hours. The results included significantly less manual work, more precise forecasts, and the new ability to run flexible data-based what-if scenarios, enabling smarter and more informed business decisions.

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