We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics, MicroStrategy, and Oracle OBIEE 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."
"The product's stability is good."
"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 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 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 tool is flexible."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"It is very stable."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable features are the lexical parameters and distribution."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly set of tools that the customer can use to develop their own business dashboards."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"It mostly supports enterprise level data. We have millions of records on a daily basis."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"It is not a good product for data visualization."
"They should develop greater visualization because their visualization isn't industry leading at the moment. The way you pull the data and see the data compared to other platforms, they're lagging a little bit behind. Also, their cost. I've got Oracle account managers trying to persuade me every day to purchase these licenses. Once you purchase OBIEE, then you have to purchase the virtualization and then you have to purchase the mobile license to operate on the mobile. It's really expensive."
"For a beginner, this is a product that is difficult to learn. You cannot learn it quickly."
"Particularly on the Cloud, a lot of functionality has yet to be ported."
"There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges."
"The drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it."
