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."Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The product's stability is good."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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 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 features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
"Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
"It's valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and doesn't require much time for understanding. The solution is stable. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The technical support is excellent, and they respond quickly."
"It plays a crucial role in facilitating decision-making for various organizational stakeholders."
"This is a stable and scalable solution."
"The technical support services are good."
"A valuable feature is the speed of the solution."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors."
"The product should be improved in terms of connectors; right now the top twenty connectors are available, but OneDrive and Teradata are missing."
"The interfaces could be improved and some in-memory operations could be built in."
"Its machine learning and visualization capabilities can be improved. There should be more visualization options."
"The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace."
"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."
"One area of improvement is associated with more connectors needing to be added such as Microsoft OneDrive, Teradata and a few others. I think the list is limited to the top ones now."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
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 24 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, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service.
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