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."
"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."
"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"
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"Good data flow and management."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the 3D charting."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"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 tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"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."
"When you're working on a dashboard, you can't select multiple components at a time and align them, so you have to go one by one. This is very cumbersome."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"They need to improve the bar chart position and width."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
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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