Effective Project Planning and Analytics tool
December 08, 2021

Effective Project Planning and Analytics tool

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

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson

Using it for Business Planning with this application increases my efficiency in time and cost perspective and [also helps] me in forecasting the mean management efforts.
  • Integration to streamline my Plans over different LOBs[.]
  • Increase efficiency in Cost and Time Perspective[.]
  • Helps me in forecasting my team efforts and management[.]
  • Difficult to Integrate with other applications[.]
  • Require expertise in deployment[.]
  • Support should be better and also expensive to implement[.]
  • Improved forecast accuracy[.]
  • Good reporting functionalities[.]
  • User friendly dashboard[.]
It's important for my forecasting for resourcing and financial, also for my reporting module to the senior management which [requires] well planned and placed [the] report of forecasting.

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

Support is good but can be improved.
Usability is good and [has] good functionalities to [fulfill] the end result but there [is] some shortfall which can be improved.
Using it for Project planning, financial forecasting in different LOBs of my project. Functionalities available are very time efficient but the Deployment and integration.

IBM Planning Analytics Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
8
Multi-currency management
8
Intercompany Eliminations
9
Minority Ownership
8
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
8
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
8
Automated board and financial reporting
9
XBRL support for regulatory filing
9
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
9
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
8
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Benchmarking with external data
9
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
8
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
8
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10