IBM Planning Analytics - Forecasting and Planning to a New Level
October 15, 2025

IBM Planning Analytics - Forecasting and Planning to a New Level

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

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics

We are using IBM Planning Analytics today to build out our short term and long term forecasts and manage our Sales, Inventory, Operations and Planning process. IBM Planning Analytics supplements our normal forecasting with enhanced modeling and more predictive/proactive estimates on stockouts as well as optimization for inventory placement to avoid suboptimal storage costs and less than ideal inventory turns and carrying costs.

Pros

  • Advanced Forecasting Models
  • Predictive Alerts and Modeling
  • Wholistic Inventory Optimization

Cons

  • Long Onboarding Process
  • Cumbersome UI
  • Better Reporting and Export functionality
  • Increased speed on finalizing buy plans and issuing forecasts and purchase orders
  • Enhanced capabilities to generate multiple planning scenarios which has increase our risk mitigation capabilities
AI planning and modeling tools that allows us to generate quickly and review quickly multiple future scenarios and plan into operations, sales and purchasing plans. Prior to IBM Planning Analytics this type of modeling was too time consuming and slow for us to efficiently use for our business
If anything IBM Planning Analytics has provided us way better capabilities than we've had before and systematized a very manual, slow and often error prone forecasting and planning process.
IBM Planning Analytics was far more robust and worked well with our existing tools and processes.

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

It is great for businesses looking to develop a strong base for their forecasting and planning capabilities that allows for rapid remodeling of forecasts and ideal for brands looking for some additional input or oversight from AI that can generate new models or different scenarios for scenario planning.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
7
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
6
Financial data consolidation
7
Journal entries and reports
5
Multi-currency management
5
Intercompany Eliminations
5
Minority Ownership
5
Local and consolidated reporting
7
Detailed Audit Trails
6
Financial Statement Reporting
7
Management Reporting
5
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
8
XBRL support for regulatory filing
5
Personalized dashboards
7
Color-coded scorecards
5
KPIs
7
Cost and profitability analysis
8
Key Performance Indicator setting
7
Benchmarking with external data
5
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
7
Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
5
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
5
Formatting capabilities
Not Rated
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
5
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
5
Predictive Analytics
8
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
Report-Level Access Control
5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7

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