We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The tool is flexible."
"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."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"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."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"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's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 20 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.4, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Beneficial predictive analytics, flexibility, and useful forecasting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, IBM Cognos and Jedox, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense.
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