We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."It's a very stable, robust product."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"The visualizations are good and keep improving."
"What I found most valuable in Qlik Sense is its flexibility. It's a very flexible tool, and it has a lot of capabilities compared to Tableau and Power BI. In Qlik Sense, you can take data from any of the systems, and you can do data transformation, prepare the data, then present your KPIs. Data transformation isn't present in Tableau, Power BI, and other tools. In Qlik Sense, you're able to get the data and directly present that data. The presentation layer is also very good in Qlik Sense. My company is very happy with this tool."
"Set analysis is a powerful scripting functionality which calculates complex queries into simple terms."
"The product is very stable."
"It is simple to develop, which is good."
"The most valuable feature is the interface for the end-user."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"Qlik Sense has a modern look and feel and a very intuitive UI, so non-technical users find it very user friendly."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"The tool should include features for prediction. It can also improve the scalability."
"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."
"Planning Analytics could be improved by adding automation features."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
"There is room for improvement in the storytelling mode and the report sharing. Qlik Sense also does not have a subscription base like Power BI. So a lot of the analysis is housed in community pages that are managed by either the author or a database administrator, or whoever the Qlik Sense manager is there."
"Needs more bookmarking and a data load screen."
"I wish the product had the ability for slightly more customization. The out-of-the box charts and visualizations are fantastic, but I want to be able to tweak it without having to add outside extensions and widgets."
"Qlik Sense should have a conversion tool which automatically converts QlikView to Qlik Sense, so customers can easily migrate between the products of Qlik."
"A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers."
"Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal."
"Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 20 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.4, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Planning Analytics writes "Beneficial predictive analytics, flexibility, and useful forecasting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, IBM Cognos and Jedox, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Alteryx.
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