We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and QlikView 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."
"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 product's stability is good."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The tool is flexible."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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'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."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"They could improve the update time."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while QlikView is rated 8.2. 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 QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, IBM Cognos and Jedox, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO Spotfire.
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