We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."It's a very stable, robust product."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The product's stability is good."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"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."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The tool is flexible."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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 is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power BI 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 Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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