We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The tool is flexible."
"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."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"The best part about Tableau is the visualization."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"I have noticed that Tableau is not very compatible with ClickHouse. There's no direct connection to ClickHouse; you have to set up an ODBC connection."
"The tool's OpenAI integration was announced last year. However, it is late. Tableau is a good solution for end customers. However, there are some concerns regarding the stability and performance of its server architecture, including SaaS services. The server side appears unstable, and performance issues are noticeable, often accompanied by unclear error messages."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"The price could be better."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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