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An outstanding and remarkable experience with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.
December 07, 2021

An outstanding and remarkable experience with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.

Alaia Johnstone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson

I'm very grateful for how I use IBM Planning Analytics with Watson to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting of workflows. With this solution, it's simple to drive higher sales performance. This solution enables ease to accelerate decision-making process. It's also simple to customize this solution to match all our organization's needs.
  • Shortens sales cycle.
  • Delivers deeper sales planning and analysis.
  • Ease to create accurate sales plans and forecasts.
  • Useful with streamlining sales management process.
  • Delivers high Returns On Investment.
  • All manual planning and analysis for sales operations can be eliminated in real-time with this solution through automation and this leaves me with absolutely nothing to highlight as a drawback.
  • I find this solution to be fully-featured and functional hence no room for improvement at the meeting.
  • This solution increases productivity.
  • Delivers high Returns On Investment.
  • Saves more time than would have rather been used to carry our manual planning and analysis.
  • Increases profitability.
This solution is very reliable in carrying our predictive data analysis. With this solution, it's possible to perform what-if analysis thus ease of exploring various business scenarios and areas that need changes.
It was simple to implement and set up IBM Planning Analytics with Watson compared to its alternatives. IBM Planning Analytics with Watson delivers great cloud planning and analysis, unlike its alternatives.

Do you think IBM Planning Analytics delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Planning Analytics's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Planning Analytics live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Planning Analytics go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Planning Analytics again?

Yes

IBM Planning Analytics with Watson provides 24/7/365 technical support services and is very responsive.
It's as simple to evaluate, implement, deploy, and get started with this solution. Again the features of this solution are simple to use, navigate and understand.
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IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is the most ideal solution that any organization needs to automate and streamline planning, budgeting, and forecasting of various business operations and workflows. This solution also offers great analytics and reporting capabilities. It's very secure thus protects business data.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

10.0
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
10.0
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
10
Multi-currency management
10
Intercompany Eliminations
10
Minority Ownership
10
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
10
10.0
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
10
XBRL support for regulatory filing
10
9.8
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
9
KPIs
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Benchmarking with external data
10
10.0
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
10.0
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
9.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
9
9.8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
9.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10