We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The product's stability is good."
"The flexibility of IBM Planning Analytics is a great feature of this solution. The design flexibility with data rules and defining calculations The ability to combine online and offline calculations are a benefit. Additionally, the forecasting features and predictive analytics is very good."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"The tool is flexible."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"Easy to use."
"SAP Analytics Cloud allows you to quickly perform various tasks in terms of virtualization. CyberArk itself requires some enhancements to better connect with other technologies. While it's easy to connect with SAP, using analytics tools may sometimes necessitate sourcing information from different platforms. You might need data from SAP or other technologies/platforms to access specific information not available within SAP. SAP is effective for managing storage and enhancing virtualization capabilities."
"It is scalable."
"We mainly use Analytics Cloud because it integrates with other SAP solutions. Our ERP is an SAP product, and our back-end is SAP Business Warehouse, so integration is an essential factor."
"The visualizations have been the most valuable feature."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It's highly competitive right now, and all the vendors are in a race to put out new versions with additional features. IBM comes out with new versions too often, and it has an impact on quality."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The new frontend Planning Analytics Workspace is not very good, it could be improved. I like the Planning Analytics functionality but it would be helpful if it could be more customizable. You can create a prediction and receive information but you cannot do feature engineering regarding the predictive models. If this was added it would be helpful."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The integration with other vendors and solutions could be improved."
"It still lacks a lot of functionalities as compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Sorting is not working as well as it works in Tableau. A lot of other things are also not at the same level. Their technical support is not perfect and could be better. It takes a lot of time to have lacking functionalities implemented. Its integration with the BW backend should be better. Both solutions are from the same vendor. They position SAP Analytics Cloud as a reporting tool on top of the BW environment, but the integration between both is not yet 100%. For example, user management is still not synchronized."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"SAP Analytics cloud needs better exporting options."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
"There is plenty of room for improvement. They have different products, and you need to integrate all of them to have one functionality. For example, data extraction happens in Datasphere. Then it would be best if you had some connection between the Datasphere and the SAP Analytics Cloud to get the data, as this is causing headaches sometimes. The knowledge base and Jedox also could be more meaningful. I have tried to search for some specific knowledge base and technology base, and I didn't find them. I have learned it by trial and error. There is room to improve the integrations between the different products. The AFS, and the Data action, need improvement. Sometimes they release new tools and updates, but not in my area."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan and IBM Cognos.
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