We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The tool is flexible."
"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."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The stability is good."
"Ability to extract data from a variety of sources and systems."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"I think because I'm moving more into RPA, I'd definitely like to see integration across the RPA, Power BI, or Tableau platforms, because that integration could then make automation and mundane reporting much faster."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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