IBM Planning Analytics

1. Good performance especially the enhanced processing engine in the recent versions;
2. Robust reporting capability and integration with other IBM software such as IBM Cognos Analytics and Microsoft office;
3. Capability of integration with Watson and SPSS.

1. Although feeds and rules are the cores of IBM Planning Analytics, it makes the developer really hard to design and troubleshooting, wondering if the complexity can be encapsulated with a more business driven approach;
2.Comparing to other software, IBM Planning Analytics lack of new features in the recent couple of years.

TM1 aka Planning Analytics will consolidate data in real-time. As soon as a budget figure is changed at the bottom of the hierarchy you can see the impact of that change on all higher level numbers, and on any related values for which calculations can be defined in its rules language. It can easily cope with Currency Conversion, Rate based Planning, Allocations, Activity Based Costing, etc. The multi-cube architecture means that if you change a value in eg the Price cube you can see the impact on other related cubes, such as Sales and Profit and Loss. It has real time links to Excel making it easy to build Excel sheets that can be used as input templates for budgeting, where entering a number instantly updates the underlying TM1 cube and which can also be used for sophisticated reporting. The Excel workbooks can be easily published to TM1 Web where are then accessible to anyone with a web browser. Data can be both entered and reported on, in the web.

The Planning Analytics Workbench PAW is not as capable as Power BI for Dashboarding. However, the modelling and planning capabilities of TM1 are superior to those of Power BI.