We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and IBM Planning Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."A valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is that it's a cloud-native service provided by AWS. As all platforms within my company run on AWS, that's the leverage of Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is also easy to use, and I find the native connectors from AWS valuable as well."
"Amazon QuickSight has introduced a new functionality called Q bar, which allows the user to do natural language queries and get additional insights using some built-in generative capabilities."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"It has a lot of valuable features, but the most important aspect is the affordable cost. This solution costs much less in comparison to the competitors like Qlik Sense, Power BI, and Tableau."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"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 feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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 most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."
"An area for improvement in Amazon QuickSight is storage. Data cleanup also needs improvement because I'm experiencing errors when cleaning the data. Amazon QuickSight needs video tutorials showing its different functions and purposes."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and Qlik Sense, whereas IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos.
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