We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The product's stability is good."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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."
"The tool is flexible."
"The drag and drop functionality provides an easy and fast development approach."
"We were able to identify easy things, such as when a contract was loaded incorrectly."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"The visualizations are good and keep improving."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"It is simple to develop, which is good."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"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."
"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it."
"The use of APIs is not as friendly as it should be in the first place, especially when considering Python scripts and all other scripts, making it an area where improvements are required."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"Better searching capabilities would be a nice addition."
"There is an inability to effectively manage (pre)caching (scheduling, assigning for respective user groups, etc), especially without community extensions or uour own development."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx.
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