We performed a comparison between IBM Planning Analytics and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."
"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 product's stability is good."
"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."
"The tool is flexible."
"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"
"It's a very stable, robust product."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"It's the ease of use. It is also a self-service tool so it decreases the burden on having centralized IT-type teams or developers."
"Good data flow and management."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"Better interaction and less time spent with end users."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"Extracting data is a little slow."
"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."
"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."
"The dashboard is very poor and needs a lot of improvement."
"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."
"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."
"It's wonky, and not super user-friendly with Excel."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."
"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"It would be nice if we could export more raw data. Currently, there is a limit as to how much data you can export."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
IBM Planning Analytics is ranked 6th in Business Performance Management with 21 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. IBM Planning Analytics is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". IBM Planning Analytics is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Jedox and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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