Octane Software Solutions

03/11/2026

Before AI, get ready for it: my keynote to 220 finance leaders at Hilton Auckland

Explore insights from the Forefront Finance Transformation Summit NZ 2026, where key finance leaders learned about the importance of AI readiness for their organizations.

02/11/2026

The One AI Step In 90 Days. Where should a risk team start with AI?

Not with a five-year roadmap. Start with one step you can deliver in the next 90 days.

In this clip from our webinar with IBM and Timus, From Risk Visibility to Risk Governance, we talk about that first step. It’s small enough to get done this quarter and useful enough to prove its value.

If your board keeps asking what your AI plan is for risk, this is a good place to start.

▶ Watch the full webinar here: https://hubs.la/Q04CKxPx0

02/11/2026

Chart Insights is just one of the AI features now built into IBM Planning Analytics. Explaincell shows how any number was calculated, who changed it and when. Impact Analysis reveals what’s really driving a result, such as gross margin, and Outlier Detection flags anything unusual before it reaches the board pack.

Best of all, it’s a governed, explainable first step into AI for finance teams. Every value comes from your own model, so there’s no guesswork and no made-up figures, just clear answers your team can trust.

If you already run TM1, there’s no re-platforming needed. The features switch on as an add-on to what you have today, so your team can start building confidence with AI without disrupting live processes.

Discover how Planning Analytics AI can save your finance team hours every month here: https://hubs.la/Q04CJq8r0

01/11/2026

Most TM1 models are built and maintained by one or two people, and that’s a risk many finance teams don’t notice until someone hands in their notice. Suddenly nobody knows why a process was built a certain way, reports start breaking, and month-end gets a lot more stressful.

Octane Blue spreads that knowledge across an experienced team, so your model is never dependent on a single person. Whether you’ve just gone live, your developer is moving on, or you need extra hands during budgeting season, we step in without the hiring headache.

Our consultants don’t just wait for tickets either. They can raise their own to fix recurring issues before your users run into them, and routine jobs can be set up to run daily, weekly or monthly so nothing slips through the cracks.

Find out how Octane Blue can protect your TM1 model here: https://hubs.la/Q04CJq8d0

30/10/2026

Still exporting CSV files from TM1 every time you need a report? 🔗

Manual exports are slow, they break easily, and reconciling them by hand puts every reporting deadline at risk. Datafusion removes that step entirely. It’s Octane’s own connector that moves your TM1 data straight into Power BI, Qlik or Tableau.

Like Power BI itself, Datafusion is low-code and built for business users, not developers. There’s no TM1 build work needed, so you don’t have to open up your models or pay for development just to get reporting out of them. You choose which datasets and metadata to sync, so you only move what you actually need.

Try Datafusion free for 60 days.
We’ll set it up with you in one online session of about an hour. Send us a message or visit https://hubs.la/Q04C68N90 to book yours.

29/10/2026

If TM1 isn’t AI-ready, another tool will be

Is your TM1 model AI-ready? Discover why modernizing TM1 is crucial for finance teams to leverage AI and enhance data governance.

29/10/2026

Your finance team didn’t sign up to spend their days chasing invoices. 🤖

Manual workflows, data silos and disconnected systems eat into the time your people should be spending on analysis and decisions. IBM watsonx Orchestrate changes that by bringing agentic AI directly into your finance processes.

Agents can extract invoice data, run three-way matching against purchase orders and goods receipts, and flag duplicates, price variances and missing POs.

Anything that falls outside the rules goes to a person for approval before it’s processed. Business users can build agents in minutes with the no-code Agent Builder, while developers get full control through the pro-code toolkit.

Ready to hand off the admin? Send us a message or visit https://hubs.la/Q04C68Py0 to talk to Octane about bringing agentic AI into your finance team.

27/10/2026

Most organisations can see their risks. Far fewer can govern them.

Boards, regulators and auditors now expect more than a risk register. They want clear ownership, tested controls and evidence on demand. Getting there with spreadsheets and point tools is slow and hard to prove.

In this free 75-minute live session, IBM, Octane and Timus Consulting show how to make that shift with IBM OpenPages. You’ll see a 30-minute live demo of IBM OpenPages, hear where AI fits in risk management and how to govern the AI itself, and get your questions answered by the panel.

The examples come from financial services and government, but the approach works in any industry.

Who should join

Chief risk officers, CFOs, heads of compliance, internal audit and GRC teams who want to move from tracking risk to governing it.

Speakers

Dr. Sara Bilal, Senior Data and AI Specialist, IBM New Zealand. Steny Sebastian, Octane. The GRC team at Timus Consulting Services.

Click Attend to get a reminder before we go live. To get the recording afterwards.

Wednesday 28 October, 11am NZDT (9am AEDT).

27/10/2026

Your finance team already knows Excel. Now give them the power to plan at scale. 📊

Spreadsheets work well for a single model, but they start to break once planning stretches across the whole business. Data ends up spread across disconnected files, there’s no single version of the truth, and too many decisions get made on gut feel instead of numbers.

IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) keeps the familiar Excel experience your team already relies on, and puts an enterprise platform behind it. Everyone works from one governed source of truth, scenario modelling becomes faster, and AI is now built into the full planning, forecasting and reporting workflow.

Ready to take your planning beyond the spreadsheet? Send us a message or visit https://hubs.la/Q04C689s0 to talk to Octane, your IBM Gold Partner.

26/10/2026

Most organisations can see their risks. Far fewer can govern them. Spreadsheets, siloed registers and manual reporting give you a snapshot.

But a snapshot isn’t control, and boards and regulators now expect more.

Tomorrow, Octane, IBM and Timus will show how IBM OpenPages helps you move from tracking risk to governing it:
✅ One view of risk, compliance and controls across the business
✅ Less manual effort in audits and reporting
✅ AI-assisted insight that helps you act sooner

📅 Wednesday, 28 October 2026 🕐 9 AM AEDT 📍 Online
There’s still time to save your spot 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04Ch8RS0