IBM Planning Analytics Tool On Top of the Game and unlimited Potential
October 15, 2025

IBM Planning Analytics Tool On Top of the Game and unlimited Potential

Varun Kohli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics

Planning is an integral part of manufacturing business. Planning derives other processes like buying raw material, production acitivities, finishing processes and budgeting. With help of proper planning tool, the activies can be planned and cost involved can be predicted near to accuracy. The tool also helps to analyse the data and represent the information in form of dashboard.

Pros

  • Budgeting
  • Anaylsis
  • Supply chain planning
  • Forecasting

Cons

  • Workflow management
  • Sandboxing
  • Ease of understand and use Modeling
  • Improved Decision Making
  • Attain operational Efficiency
  • Cost Effective
  • Resource Allocation Streamlined
1) Supply -chain planning
2) Forecasting
3) Budgeting
4) Scorecarding
5) Analysis
6) Costing
7) Resource Allocation
8) Modeling
Planning was not integrated earlier and it was manually connected by professionals involved in the respective areas. With state of art technology used in IBM Planning Analytic's business is able to attain agility in each area.
The processes and operations involved in an enterprise can be visualized on a common platform. This was a challange earlier as MIS and costing personnels had to maintain and connect the processes manually.
The overall tool is robust and complete in its capabilities.
It has an edge over other competitors and state of art technology.

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

The enterprises where planning demands state of art expertise since it directly leads to make-up costing of the product.
Profitability can also be planned as per business margins.
The businesses where the business runs mainly as-in service industry which involves delivery by human professionals may not need the planning tools that dearly.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

8.0
Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
8
Management reporting
8
7.1
Financial data consolidation
7
Journal entries and reports
7
Multi-currency management
8
Intercompany Eliminations
7
Minority Ownership
6
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
8.0
Personalized dashboards
8
Color-coded scorecards
8
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
8
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Benchmarking with external data
8
8.0
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.0
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
8.0
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
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)
8
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
7.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8

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