We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"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."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The tool is flexible."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The technical support services are good."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"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."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"Colours used on report objects"
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"The visualization should be better in SAS Visual Analytics. It is easy to use but when compared to other solutions it is lacking and the support is not very good."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 20 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.4, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Beneficial predictive analytics, flexibility, and useful forecasting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, IBM Cognos and Jedox, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku Data Science Studio.
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