Likelihood to Recommend For downtime tracking, the process is well suited to tracking the operation of an entire process or plant; it is not suited to tracking individual equipment reliability. For inventory management, it is suited to tracking either bulk or discrete production, as its concepts are quite general. The Metrics engine is suited to smaller deployments; larger deployments would do better to extract and warehouse the raw data for external analysis and reporting.
Read full review In my organization, we mainly use Workday Prism Analytics in HR and Finance departments. It not only enables us to make data-centric decisions but also helps reduce the need for data experts since we are able to visualize data on our own through self-service analytics.
Read full review Pros It's web based. No need to install any desktop clients on your machine to use platfora. It's best suited for a big data Hadoop environment. I can rate it as the #1 BI tool for a big data hadoop environment. Platfora follows kind of the same architecture as Hadoop architecture like Master and Slave architecture. It scales with the data volumes. Querying data is very good and very fast. (Platfora Lens) Client presentation wise it's good. You can get different kinds of graphs. Platfora almost supports everything on Big Data technologies including file formats, compression etc. Security is not compromised and it can deal in parallel with any Hadoop distributor security implementations. Just take an example of Knox on Hortonworks, so it will deal with that and cloudera , MapR Its very easily understandable and for the new people who wants to try platfora, learning curve is low You can create your own datasets in platfora. You can store your results as a dataset in platfora and can share across Read full review Cons Data visualization and analysis--the built-in UI could be more fully featured Integration to external analysis tools and dashboards General UI and usability; a web interface is definitely needed Read full review Data Movement - Data needs to be moved from Hadoop to Platfora to create Platfora Lens and to do analytics. To support Data movement, infrastructure cost is high. To support data movement, network bandwidth consumption is high. No trial versions for companies to evaluate. Read full review Alternatives Considered We evaluate a number of inventory management products; however, none provided the full pit-to-port coverage. There were only AVEVA Manufacturing Execution, powered by Ampla, and ION Qmastor. AVEVA Manufacturing Execution, powered by Ampla, provided a simpler interface, while the QMastor product seemed to be a collection of applications. There were other products evaluated, but they were not yet mature and proven.
Read full review Both are great products. The advantage of
SAP Workforce Analytics is that it's widely interoperable between different APIs and databases. Having said that, Workday Prism Analytics scores much better in user-friendliness and the learning curve for the teams to start using it is very low. If Workday enhances its APIs functionality, it can compete easily with
SAP Workforce Analytics .
Read full review Return on Investment Downtime classification has made sense of plant reliability data; whereas, before it was unstructured and could not be used for analysis Production tracking and reporting. This solution is providing a unified, common source of production tracking for all departments, stored in a database rather than spreadsheets. A single source of truth ensures all data aligns and matches. KPIs are providing a measurable indicator of performance against company-defined targets. Read full review Improved ROI by decreasing the necessary time investment that managers must make to upkeep employee data sectors. Improved ease of access for employees, reducing unnecessary communication between employees and management. Has led to fewer accounting errors overall. Read full review ScreenShots Workday Prism Analytics Screenshots