We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Oracle 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 ease of use is valuable. The fact that it's plugged into Excel spreadsheets is also valuable. It provides additional functionality where you can slice and dice the information in a way that you can't do with spreadsheets"
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"A lot of the platform is in-memory, so Planning Analytics can run calculations quite fast. It also offers several user interfaces. And in the newest version of Planning Analytics, there is a new one called the Planning Analytics Workspace. Maybe it could be useful for the business side."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The tool is flexible."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"Data preparation is fantastic and fast. We were able to use multiple data sources and prepare the data quickly."
"Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."
"The product is easily customized."
"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
"I've discovered that the new layout of this product makes Docker sharing, machine learning support, and data backups more efficient. Unlike the older method of linking physical, pre-logical, and presentation layers separately, the new interface simplifies this process. Additionally, the integration of databases and machine learning is seamless, with the new visualization approach being particularly beautiful and highly beneficial."
"The most valuable features of the solution are dashboarding and data visualization."
"This is a stable and scalable solution."
"Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The solution could be more flexible."
"Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."
"As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."
"The product should be improved in terms of connectors; right now the top twenty connectors are available, but OneDrive and Teradata are missing."
"The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors."
"It is expensive."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
"Its machine learning and visualization capabilities can be improved. There should be more visualization options."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Oracle Analytics Cloud is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 25 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Oracle 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 Oracle Analytics Cloud writes "Reliable, capable of handling massive amounts of data, and good value for money". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is most compared with Databricks, Oracle OBIEE, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service.
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