We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and IBM Planning Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."
"Amazon QuickSight can provide insights from the available data. It supports various rule types. We get the options of machine learning and insights, which are not available in other intelligence tools. It is easier to use, more stable, and cheaper than other solutions."
"I like that with Amazon QuickSight, you don't need to install an app to use its services. With other BI tools, you need to install the app, so Amazon QuickSight is better for me in this area."
"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"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."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The tool is flexible."
"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 product's stability is good."
"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 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."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"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 tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 5th in Business Performance Management with 22 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and Qlik Sense, whereas IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos.
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