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."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."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"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."
"The tool is flexible."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"The technical support services are good."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"Great for handling complex data models."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps with quality assurance processes."
"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 is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"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."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
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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