We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and MicroStrategy 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."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"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 product's stability is good."
"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."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"It is a great tool and has the best offerings for doing data analysis."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. 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 MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense.
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