We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud 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."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"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 most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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 product's stability is good."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is very easy to use, and you don't require much technology. It has a very good library and analytics. It is easy to configure and offers good visualization."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"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."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"The solution should include other scripting languages as well, such as Python."
"An area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is its planning feature because it's not that efficient when compared to BPC. Another area for improvement in the solution is the difficulty in building reports or dashboards, particularly if you don't have proper knowledge of the BI system. SAP Analytics Cloud technical support also needs improvement."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
"We need to know that we are using the latest and greatest, and SAP appears as if it has lost some credit in the market."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 57 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while SAP Analytics Cloud 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan and IBM Cognos.
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