We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."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."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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"
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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 dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"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."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"It has got great flexibility. As a reporting tool, it has a great deal of flexibility for numerous data resources that you can bring into it. It allows you to write your SQL query directly within the product. So, it allows you to do server-side joins instead of pulling all the data into Crystal Report to aggregate that data. It has great visualization. For the most part, it operates quite efficiently."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"Through the use of Business Intelligence reporting and scheduling features, reports are generated and automatically sent according to a schedule. This has freed up countless hours spent performing the same tasks, month over month."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"Enables us to present data with Smart Objects that can be embedded within presentations and which automatically update when the presentations are run."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
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"Extracting data is a little slow."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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 would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"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 setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different."
"They could reduce the licensing expenses. There is nothing really wrong with the product in terms of what it does. It works well. If you are a part of BI Launch Pad, then you could run ad hoc reporting, but for the integration, you need access to BI Launch Pad, which is quite expensive. We're an organization with 18,000 employees. It is not really practical to give people access to BI Launch Pad. So, from a customer perspective, in terms of saturating our employee base, we don't really have great saturation because of the expense."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
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