If your finance team runs on Excel — and let’s be honest, most do — then connecting Excel to IBM Planning Analytics is the single most impactful thing you can do for your planning process.

But which Excel add-in should you use? IBM offers its own solution (PAfe — Planning Analytics for Excel), and ForQuest Solutions has built Plaicel™, a web-based alternative designed to solve the problems PAfe wasn’t built to handle.
This post breaks down the real differences so you can make an informed decision.