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."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"
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"It's scalable."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"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."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"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 is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"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."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 66 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while TIBCO Spotfire 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 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, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, QlikView and Amazon QuickSight.
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