IBM Planning Analytics vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

"The most valuable features of IBM Planning Analytics for streamlining planning processes include a unified database where all data are centralized."

"Planning Analytics' best features include automatic updates and slicing."

"Navigating through the data to make analysis is really quick."

"The product's stability is good."

"The tool is flexible."

"It's a very stable, robust product."

"The flexibility of IBM Planning Analytics is a great feature of this solution. The design flexibility with data rules and defining calculations The ability to combine online and offline calculations are a benefit. Additionally, the forecasting features and predictive analytics is very good."

"All the different platforms are well integrated."

"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."

"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."

"The product is stable."

"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."

"Microsoft Power BI is an easy tool for data analysis."

"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."

"Power BI's integration with other tools is very good."

"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."

"The tool's transport layer could be improved when promoting development between environments."

"It would have been better if the solution was not just a tool kit."

"The new frontend Planning Analytics Workspace is not very good, it could be improved. I like the Planning Analytics functionality but it would be helpful if it could be more customizable. You can create a prediction and receive information but you cannot do feature engineering regarding the predictive models. If this was added it would be helpful."

"It's highly competitive right now, and all the vendors are in a race to put out new versions with additional features. IBM comes out with new versions too often, and it has an impact on quality."

"Adding predefined templates could be beneficial."

"It is a bit expensive, but it does the job."

"The local authentication part is difficult to manage in the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Extracting data is a little slow."

"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."

"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."

"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."

"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."

"The solution should increase the API functionality so that we can use Microsoft Power BI for other purposes and aggregate things."

"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."

"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."

"I have found that some issues exist, indicating room for improvement in scalability."

"It is a bit expensive, but you get what you are paying for."

"Our licensing cost is approximately $50,000.00 per year."

"The license of this solution is paid annually. Most of my customers choose a license that includes support."

"IBM Planning Analytics is not the cheapest solution, but it's priced per the market standard for this type of solution. I rate the price at seven out of ten."

"IBM Planning Analytics is priced well, and licensing costs are yearly."

"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten since it's expensive."

"Compared with the other tools in the market, IBM Planning Analytics is a bit expensive."

"If you purchase a license for a server, for users, or the professional version, you might not have to. The free version I think it can satisfy many customers' needs."

"It is a cheap solution for our needs."

"The premium capacity is very costly in respect of the market in Egypt, amounting to $5,000 monthly."

"The current licensing model that Microsoft BI has is expensive. My customers have told me the cost is approximately $20 per user and this can get expensive fast. There should be a one-time purchase option if the customer has a lot of users."

"Microsoft BI is not very cheap. A premium license costs roughly 5,000 euros a month."

"This solution came free, it was offered by Microsoft with our E3 license."

"In general, Microsoft BI's price is lower compared to Alteryx."

"Globally, we evaluated a number of products, including Salesforce's product, Microsoft won on the ground of simple functionally and cost."