We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Sisense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."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."
"All the different platforms are well integrated."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"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 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"
"The tool is flexible."
"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"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."
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and IBM Cognos, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight.
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