We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Planning Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, RapidMiner, SAP and others in Predictive Analytics."The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its unlimited handling capabilities."
"The three data signs and data engineering are great features."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"The connectors are a very good feature."
"I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"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."
"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's a very stable, robust product."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"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"
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"The solution is improving continuously. They have, for example, just added automatic insights. If they continue to improve on their overall service offering, that would be ideal."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"Lacks an open source edition which would be helpful."
"It seems to me that it is not always user friendly."
"It should have Linux support. It currently supports only Windows. It does not support any other platform. Its price should also be lower. Their US partner management program is actually unresponsive. One of the reasons why we don't have a formalized partnership plan with them is because their partner management team is atrociously unresponsive. This is something that they need to change."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"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."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and Board.
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