The Best Investment for Corporate Financial Planning
June 13, 2019
The Best Investment for Corporate Financial Planning
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics on Cloud
It is being used at my client site for reporting the gross margin for the entire organization which otherwise was done in offline Excel spreadsheets.
- Managed services - IT no longer has to worry about managing the infrastructure - including adding or removing disc space, RAM, upgrades, authorizations, and security, etc. It's all being managed by IBM that proactively monitors the environments and sends regular updates and alerts to keep the client informed of key events.
- Product upgrades and fixes - IBM owns the complete responsibility to ensure timely upgrades are taking place and fixes are applied to keep the product up to date ensuring the clients are able to leverage the best of the product as soon as it's available. This also includes taking the backups and restoring it when requested with a very proactive Ops team who diligently monitors the emails and responds and addresses the requests 24/7, even at very short notices.
- Mobility - WIth applications on the cloud, it becomes very convenient for clients to access the reports from anywhere, anytime and from any device that supports the internet without having to be within the corporate network.
- Losing all the control over the environment and depending on Cloud Ops for performing even small tasks - flexibility needs to be added as to where some ownership can be shared between the client and Cloud Ops.
- Limitations on logging in to the RDP where no more than 2 users can log in at the same time (I understand this is more of a Microsoft issue - however, a middle path or a workaround must be provided to address the issue at hand).
- Setting up the ADFS security for the application is still a bit of a process to go through - this can be streamlined a bit.
- Huge savings on the hardware side.
- Long terms savings on licenses.