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."
"The product's stability is good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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"
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"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."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th 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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