We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"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."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"R and automation services."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"It's scalable."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"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."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"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."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"I would like more easy-to-implement analytical algorithms. At the moment they include things like forecasts and regressions. They need to add a lot more of these types of things to the product because not everyone is a data scientist."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 20 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 65 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.4, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Beneficial predictive analytics, flexibility, and useful forecasting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, IBM Cognos and Jedox, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight.
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