We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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 most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."
"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."
"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"
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"The tool is flexible."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The solution can scale."
"We find the product to be very stable."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Way of creating reports."
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"The Web Editing capabilities allow us to grant end users enough capabilities for them to do self-serve discovery without the added cost of needing to get everyone desktop licenses."
"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"The platform's most important feature is predictive analysis."
"Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"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 dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"The biggest area for improvement would be the dashboarding capabilities due to the recent change from Xcelsius to Dashboard Designer. This has created a gigantic ripple in many companies because the skill sets required are drastically different."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
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"I would like Tableau to handle geospatial data better in terms of multiple layers and shapefiles."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."
"The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"We would like a report model, because currently there is no schema that we can create in the tool."
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