IBM Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1®, is an integrated planning solution designed to promote collaboration across the organization and help keep pace with the speed of modern business. With its calculation engine, this enterprise performance management solution is designed to help users move beyond the limits of spreadsheets, automating the planning process to drive faster, more accurate results. Use it to unify data sources into one single repository, enabling users to build…
I have experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), which we use for planning, forecasting, outlook, and plan-versus-actual analysis in our Finance environment. AI Transformation Use Cases - Finance Technology Partners: SAC excels at visualization and SAP-integrated analytics, …
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More real time and has the ability to customize based on the business need
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OneStream just seemed much more rigid in how things had to be structured and IBM Planning Analytics gave us more ability to customize what we wanted
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Global Sales Lead in Sales at Boss of Intelligent Solutions Pvt Ltd (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Anaplan is a very good platform, specially for connected planning across teams but IBM PA is a better fit when we need powerful data analysis, flexible financial planning and seamless integration with the IBM ecosystem. It gives us more control over complex calculations and …
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Solution Architect in Information Technology at HSE Analytics (Oil & Energy, 11-50 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
Cognos Analytics. stands out to be a more matured tool. This gives user more flexibility in do their own sandboxing as compared to its competitors. I also found the security management is easier and straightforward in IBM Planning Analytics.
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ability to customize the dashboard, connect with current data and financials (export into Excel), and share reports with teams
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Practice Director in Professional Services at Cubewise (Accounting, 201-500 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
All those mention products are great for something simple, as soon as the complexity level become higher, for example, something very simple like requiring over 8 dimensions on a cube, the other products either having performance issues or just not possible to scale.
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We have compared and evaluated Microsoft Power BI before moving into IBM Planning Analytics. Compared to Power BI, Planning Analytics provides stronger capabilities in budgeting and forecasting, and what-if analysis. And also it integrates very well with Microsoft Excel. When …
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Hardware requirements, number of partners, web portal
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Marketing Director in Finance and Accounting at 1Direction Global (Dairy, 11-50 employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
ON premise & On cloud solution , with full fledged business modelling capability , one stop solution for business challenges from planning to data analytics.
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IBM Planning Analytics is more user friendly and can build visualization out of the box
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IBM has great integration cross-functionally, which has been an edge for us as an organization.
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Business Analytics Manager in Finance and Accounting at Citibanamex (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Chose IBM Planning Analytics
We tried out Workday Adaptive Planning and Anaplan to see what they could do. Neither of these matched Planning Analytics' Rules engine, which was multidimensional. That was key. It's great for complex time-series data, driver-based allocations and intricate intercompany …
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IBM Planning Analytics, is an integrated planning solution that does more than just plan. IBM Planning Analytics harnesses a powerful calculation engine to provide deep insights and automate planning, budgeting and forecasting. Plus, you can collaborate seamlessly across …
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If compared to Excel, it eliminates version control issues and manual consolidation, which saves time and reduces errors. On the other hand, if we compared with Hyperion, IBM Planning Analytics is more agile and user-friendly, especially with the Excel integration (PAx) and the …
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IBM Planning Analytics was far more robust and worked well with our existing tools and processes.
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For strong technical teams and flexibility IBM Planning Analytics is the way to go. For quicker adoption and less technical teams Anaplan is the best option. If consolidation, financials, and moving from legacy tools are main focus than OneStream will be a really good choice. …
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It is truly hard to compare both products. I like both products and would suggest choosing one but trying both. Some things are better through IBM Planning Analytics and some things are better through the IBM Analytics Engine. Ultimately I believe that IBM Planning Analytics …
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instead several, manual maintained excel spreadsheets, we have now implemented a save repeatable process to get data in and out to the users
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We chose IBM Planning Analytics because we find that it still uniquely positions with OLAP engine
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Overall, I rate IBM Planning Analytics 8/10 because it provides substantial value for complex, repeatable enterprise Finance planning and analysis. I would rate it even higher with a simpler business-user experience, easier model maintenance and troubleshooting, stronger data integration, and more AI-driven capabilities to automatically identify and explain financial variances.
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Certain accounts (Sales (incl. Sales Reductions), SG&A) are loaded centrally based on ERP data, reducing manual input and potential errors
While some accounts (mainly resources, PCOS, variances and OOIE) will continue to be filled manually into IBM Planning Analytics. This shift will allow for a more integrated approach to data management
The central sales tool for all scenarios (ACT, CF, CFM, and BP), offering both a consolidated overview as well as detailed data for non‑consolidated entities or total entity sales (including internal sales). The system provides all key sales KPIs, including growth rates
Web-based workflow to support controllers with the MBR (Monthly Business Report) creation and submission
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Since IBM Cognos Express is suitable only for medium data warehouse environment, we are not sure if this tool solves the long term need as the business keeps growing rapidly. So its a 50/50 ratio to renew Express license. But having said that, the components of IBM Cognos Express are also available in other Cognos BI suites like Cognos 10.x version. So we will probably upgrade our environment to IBM Cognos 10.x which comes with more new features.
IBM Planning Analytics is generally good in terms of functionalities. It can be used reduce time for budget planning, resource planning, demand forecasting, etc. The performance of IBM Planning Analytics is acceptable, but user interface can be improved. It would be good to see new features that allow users to customise the dashboard.
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IBM support has been very quick to respond and handle the very few issues we've had. We've had a third-party who partners with IBM to be our consulting team which has helped greatly reduce the need for us to contact IBM directly. I highly recommend researching and selecting a well-respected partner to help with an implementation as well as ongoing support as needed.
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For strong technical teams and flexibility IBM Planning Analytics is the way to go. For quicker adoption and less technical teams Anaplan is the best option. If consolidation, financials, and moving from legacy tools are main focus than OneStream will be a really good choice. If deeply invested into SAP already than the SAP BPC will be the best fit to maintain the investment.
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it's built for large enterprise rollouts to many users, with on-premises, cloud and hybrid options. The query service is mature and uses caching, and governance and security hold up at scale.
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