Imagine this…

It’s a dark night.

The office is silent.

Suddenly, your Planning Analytics environment starts to act strange.

Performance drops.

Fixes fail.

The team goes pale.

The villain?
A missed IBM Security Bulletin.
The fix was out there… but the notification never reached you.

We’ve seen the horror. Don’t let it happen to you.
Here’s our simple step-by-step guide to subscribing to IBM’s security bulletins for Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics, and Controller.

Keep your systems safe. Keep your sleep nightmare-free.

It was late one night in Finance-land,
And the spreadsheets gave a chill.
Against the glow of endless tabs,
The numbers looked quite ill.

Cashflow twisted, logic broke,
Reports brought only dread.
A DIY gone horribly wrong,
“We’re doomed!” the finance team said.

The chaos spread, the errors grew,
Nothing made much sense.
They feared the nightmare wouldn’t end,
Their stress was most intense.

Then through the dark, a hero came,
Aramar heard their call.
Knots untangled, flow restored,
Aramar fixed it all.

Automation strong, reporting clear,
Indeed, a splendid sight.
Controller saved, the team could rest,
And sleep in peace that night.

IT spend is just an ordinary thing: familiar, routine.
The business runs, the budgets tick along.

But beneath the surface, something lurks.
In the shadows of untracked receipts, in the gaps of forgotten subscriptions…

It takes the shape of every CFO’s nightmare:

The missing invoice.

The creeping subscription cost.

The project that bleeds money unchecked.

Sometimes it looks like an innocent upgrade.
Sometimes it grins like a clown.

Time passes. Leaders move on.
The horror is forgotten… until the numbers return, more terrifying than before.

It is the curse of IT Overspend.

But it doesn’t have to be the ending.
With IBM Apptio, every penny is wisely tracked, every cost clear and accounted for.

The heart of the problem is ripped out. The nightmare ends.

It started with a single spreadsheet.
But then… there was another.
And another.

Before long, ESG reporting is haunted by a thousand spreadsheets.
Formulas fighting each other.
Data contradicting itself.
Cells screaming in error: #DIV/0! … #REF! … #VALUE!

Your head is spinning.

Excel is no longer serving you.
It is possessing you.
The more you resist, the deeper the chaos grows.

You’ve seen it all:

#NUM!  Numbers shifting on their own.

#SPILL! Duplicates multiplying in the dark.

#NULL! Hours lost, trapped in endless reconciliation.

But there is a way out.
IBM Envizi casts out the chaos.
Consolidates your data.
Restores order.

One clear system.
One source of truth.
No more nightmares in Excel.

😱 If you’re living through The Excelorcist, it’s time to end the torment.
👉 Contact Aramar, we know how to bring peace to ESG reporting.

Three sisters, long forgotten…
One controls the numbers.
One predicts the future.
And one, the most enchanting of all, brings the magic to life with her beautiful visions.

With a click of her dashboard, she conjures charts that speak louder than words,
Graphs that reveal hidden truths,
And visuals that leave no story untold.

Without her, data is left in the dark.
Insights are lost.
The coven’s magic fades.

Her name is Cognos.
The face of the coven.
The spellbinding storyteller.
The one who makes the unseen, seen.

👉 Light the Black Flame Candle* to summon the full analytics coven with Aramar and IBM.

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We hope you enjoyed these short stories. IBM’s Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics, Controller, Apptio, and Envizi can help your business sleep easy at night.

👉 Contact Aramar we’re here to turn your business nightmares into success.