We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and SAP 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."Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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"
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The product's stability is good."
"The tool is flexible."
"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."
"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 many features make it the best in the market."
"Provides rich features for developing automated reports and dashboards."
"Easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the analytical application and the user story."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"The product is flexible and has features like AI, link analysis, and insights. It has many features. I can search, and it creates automatic charts without selecting anything. For example, I can ask, "What is the gross margin?" the tool builds a chart based on my question."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"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."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"Its integration or connectivity with non-SAP systems, big data, and social media, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, et cetera, can be improved. This is where SAP has limited features as compared to other solutions."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"SAP Analytics cloud needs better exporting options."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"Statistical analysis should be a bit more profound than it is."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while SAP 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan and IBM Cognos.
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