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."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."
"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 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"
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"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."
"Data integration is very good."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"Planning is the most valuable feature of the product because it's integrated and that means we don't need to rely on an independent planning environment."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"In the most recent release, the schedule publication was officially updated and it's been added on MS Office 365. I like how we had an EPM for B to C perspective; it's a great enhancement. Also, I believe the B to B connectivity has been improved. Android support for mobile is really good also. Power BI has always had android support in place, so manual support for SAP Analytics Cloud is also a very good feature."
"It is scalable."
"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."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"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."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The security, authorization, and live connection to the back-office system features can be improved. A business analyst colleague who creates complex financial management reports has mentioned that he wants to see more fact and visualization features. It would be helpful to have more visualization features to be able to prepare more stories or reports for executives. For example, Tableau has some visualization features that are not present in this solution."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"There should be more features for the time series charts."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"When it comes to planning there is a concern about the ability to match the exact requirements of the customer with what the product offers."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 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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