Objective, Advanced and Consolidated Planning Application.
June 15, 2021

Objective, Advanced and Consolidated Planning Application.

Jadwel Mayna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson

IBM Planning Analytics is a dedicated application, which facilitates the overall operations of our business, based on the research and marketing evaluations conducted. The software facilitates our management team with ideas to negotiate on costs and production expenses, for fair product or service pricing. The software requires no coding or IT background expertise to run it, but it ensures proper analysis is done for effective forecasting and resource budgeting. Finally, IBM Planning Analytics works in almost all departments, and there is a collaboration of activities, which ensures there are sales and revenue predictions.
  • With IBM Planning Analytics, creating sales forecasts is possible, and this guides on the production costs to incur.
  • Furthermore, IBM Planning Analytics has automation, which reduces the budgeting time and the work load of the management team.
  • Furthermore, IBM Planning Analytics issues extensive and professional analysis, to every situation in a company setting for supported growth.
  • The interface of IBM Planning Analytics should be more updated, to suit the modern designs.
  • The support agents are quite slow, more so in some states and they delay the operations of the software.
  • [In my experience] Some IBM Planning Analytics versions fail to easily integrate with some programs like excel.
  • IBM Planning Analytics gives us refined and accurate data reports, which helps us plan on what we want to do in the future.
  • Also, IBM Planning Analytics facilitates our financial statement preparations, through cost analysis and transactional recording.
  • The collaboration aspect is also in this program, as different departments work with the objective of improving the operations of a company.
  • Lastly, data safety is completely maintained, and procedures that limits threats are put up.
IBM Planning Analytics understands the importance of stable and scalable growth, and that is why it foresees any scenario and gives solutions towards it. One, the program ensures we don't make huge losses when some eventualities happen. Also, IBM Planning Analytics issues us with different planning parameters, which ensures the risks connected with some of the scenarios are mitigated.
IBM Planning Analytics has the scenario management and analysis feature, with broad parameters that increase the chances of business growth and constant prosperity. Also, IBM Planning Analytics includes the budgeting features in its development, and this makes us project the possible results in terms of revenue, or the possibilities of making losses. And lastly, IBM Planning Analytics has the form of stability, which offers us some guarantee and confidence when working with the program.

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 has a friendly, knowledgeable, and listening help desk and support group. They are readily accessible, through live chat, or even through email. Also, IBM Planning Analytics has documentation and guides, that gifts new users on how to execute the software. The orientation and the constant updates also provide users with knowledge of executing the program.
IBM Planning Analytics performances the entire delegated roles with planning, data analytics, budgeting, and others. There is communication support from IBM Planning Analytics. The data storage safety measures are fully employed, and the required online documentation is done. Finally, the financial support from the program, starting with sales projections and cost analysis is excellent and consolidated.
IBM Planning Analytics is the right forecasting software, which ensures the process of budgeting is effectively done. Also, IBM Planning Analytics is perfect for preparing financial reports, transactional analysis, and data management. For computations and complex calculations, IBM Planning Analytics is a program that has made our work easier and through automation, there is accuracy in doing data processing.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
10
Multi-currency management
10
Intercompany Eliminations
10
Minority Ownership
10
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
9
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
9
XBRL support for regulatory filing
10
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
10
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Benchmarking with external data
10
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10