A handy analytics tool for newbies
October 02, 2024

A handy analytics tool for newbies

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics

We use IBM Planning Analytics to analyse students' results. Planning Analytics allows us to identify at risk students at an early stage, so we can provide necessary assistance to students who are at risk to fail. This helps us retain more students who would drop out or switch to other universities.

Pros

  • accuracy
  • ease of use
  • speed

Cons

  • Online document can be improved
  • User interface
  • Cost
  • time saving
  • improved accuracy
  • detailed reporting
IBM Planning Analytics helps us forecast enrolment number in the next few years, based on current student enrolment number and pass rates in each discipline. We developed a number of different models for analysis and used different scenarios to try to capture all possibilities and then compared results from different models to make necessary adjustments.

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

No

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 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.
IBM Planning Analytics is good for small to medium-size jobs or less complex projects. It can generate reasonably comfident results if input datasets are well prepared and cleaned. IBM Planning Analytics is not quite good when it comes to large-scale datasets, or datasets from various sources (for example data dumped from different databases.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

7.6
Long-term financial planning
7
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
7
Management reporting
8
7.9
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
8
Multi-currency management
8
Intercompany Eliminations
8
Minority Ownership
8
Local and consolidated reporting
7
Detailed Audit Trails
8
8.0
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
8
Excel-based Reporting
8
Automated board and financial reporting
8
XBRL support for regulatory filing
8
7.7
Personalized dashboards
7
Color-coded scorecards
7
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
8
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Benchmarking with external data
8
7.7
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
7
7.7
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
8
7.8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.8
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
8
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
7.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7

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