We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."The tool is flexible."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"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 most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"The dashboards are amazing, with different report types and stunning visuals. Most importantly, Tableau's AI with machine learning automatically predicts features and reports based on historical data. These are the three most valuable features for me."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"With performance tuning, it generates a pretty complex query when it is not required."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"When you create new fields in Tableau and you enter the formulas, there is a new small window that is there in the interface. You can enter the calculated fields, it could be more user-friendly. At this time it is limited and hard to understand at the beginning. The fields should be easier to use, such as in Microsoft Excel. You can have a difficult time understanding what to do in the fields, you end up doing trial and error to figure it out."
"Requires a lot of user training."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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