IBM Planning Analytics as a Service
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Learning PA
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of slicing and dicing dimensions in cubes
What do you dislike about the product?
Feeders and skipchecks are pretty cumbersome to unhderstand at this point
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Planning and creating dashboards
Very Flexible Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the flexibility of the tool. Makes it easy to use and develop.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of resources. It would be nice if there was more resources available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Budget and Planning
planning analytics review
What do you like best about the product?
Speed of query results. Processing power and result speed is the best factor in tm1.
What do you dislike about the product?
Usage for consumers could be better. The interface isn't easy to figure out unless given a proper introduction and course.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The speed of processing and returning the desired data is the biggest benefit
A powerful and ever evolving technology
What do you like best about the product?
IBM is consistently looking for feedback and introducing new features to provide a better user experience and improve the server stability
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately as somewhat of a corner case (using a very large distributed Linux setup) we do end up with multiple stability issues leading to server crashes throughout the year. These issues are often hard to track down and resolve without large upgrade or configuration efforts which consume a large amount of time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use PA to solve our Finance and reporting needs.
Complete but slightly cluttered
What do you like best about the product?
Speed, Reporting Flexibility, Scalability,
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes cluttered nature of the tree structure in typical environments, however I realize this can be improved in development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Typical self service financial reporting from multiple ERPs.
Have been a long term user of TM1
What do you like best about the product?
Speed and flexibility. Integration with Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance Modeler. The autogenerated code that is inserted into rules is hard to remove and trace. Sandboxes are tough to manage at large scale clients.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Budgeting and Planning applications. Have brought many clients off of spreadsheet hell and into the modern world with real time applications using TM1
Planning Analytics improves processes and saves us time
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to have basic settings and capabilities for end users while at the same time offering dynamic high level power users the ability to pull data in multiple formats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because it is still growing and changing (which is understandable) sometimes support is slow or lacking. O
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time. The ability to use both Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics allows us to import GL data into our daily Planning Analytics environment which helps close out the monthly process a lot quicker than before we used TM1.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Plan well.
Excellent planning solution (and more)
What do you like best about the product?
PA/TM1 is has features which are well-suited to planning applications, in particular, thanks to its best-in-class real-time calculation and modeling engine. It integrates well with other applications and data sources, as well, and is able to handle large numbers of users and quantities of data. It has the best Excel integration of any planning or financial reporting application I've ever worked with. Best of all, it is incredibly flexible: it can do much more than planning and is able to solve a host of other business problems including financial consolidation, allocations, and much more!
What do you dislike about the product?
The modeling and ETL scripting languages are proprietary and, while powerful, can be challenging and may have a steep learning curve for some users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Planning/budgeting/forecasting, financial reporting, consolidation, allocations, and many other types of financial models.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ask for a proof of concept with your data. Most other competitors will resist anything other than canned demos.
Continually Learning with TM1
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility in creating and refreshing reports is the most functional capability of the tool. The web access and speed of working on the web is helpful for users. The cloud access and use of Perspectives is a very important component to us.
What do you dislike about the product?
The subset editor and the lack of consistency from one form of using TM1 to another. Also the naming and rebranding is confusing. Users have a tough time keeping up with the changes that are given in the various formats.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosts our financial data and forecasts. The hosting of that data enables the ability to generate and create many reports with ease.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Attend continuing education to continually stay on top of all that the software has to offer.
TM1 Product Review
What do you like best about the product?
I personally love the DBRW functionality they make life so much easier when you can link multiple workbooks together and with one change of a dimension you can update all the workbooks together.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not a huge fan of PAX I find it rather confusing at times and then I just don't really like the layout look.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are strengthening the forecasting and budget process with it, every day making life a little easier by tying up loose ends and working through outdated materials.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Practice the DBRW's because once you are able to create workbooks that use them to the maximum capability they can completely transform your business and drive how you will make decisions.
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