We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Microsoft Power BI 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 most valuable feature is that it is able to slice and dice the data."
"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 product's stability is good."
"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."
"IBM Planning Analytics is easy to use and deploy. It is quick to develop. The calculation machine is also very fast."
"The tool is flexible."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"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 Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"The solution doesn't integrate well with third-party tools."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power BI 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 Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Jedox, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE.
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