We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Workday Prism Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."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 most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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 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."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."
"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's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It is not a very scalable product."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 25th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. 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 Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Essbase.
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