We performed a comparison between Board and IBM Planning Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and the charts. The reporting functionality is handy for aggregation, when it comes to planning. That ability is fascinating and our users are very happy with it. The charts and the reporting allow our users to see all the data and to see how things are going this year or in the COVID situation. They're seeing everything. Instead of having to check data line by line, they're seeing it in a graph and they're seeing it in charts."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The product's stability is good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"It's very powerful, but there is also a big learning curve. It should be a little more intuitive."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"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."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Can easily create dashboards and helps businesses improve forecasting accuracy". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Hyperion, Microsoft Power BI and CCH Tagetik, whereas IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and CCH Tagetik. See our Board vs. IBM Planning Analytics report.
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