Oct 2, 2021
Pulse features comparison table (on-premise vs IBM PA SaaS)
Pulse can monitor many IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instances. They can be self-hosted (on-premise or on your private cloud such as AWS, Google Cloud… or on IBM PA Cloud (Planning Analytics Software as a Service).
It does not matter where Pulse is installed but what is important is where TM1 is hosted.
A couple of Pulse features require direct access to the TM1 server and therefore are not available when your TM1 instances are on the IBM PA Cloud.
The comparison table below shows which Pulse features are available when TM1 is self-hosted vs using TM1 with the IBM PA Cloud (PA SaaS):
| Features | PA Self-hosted | IBM PA Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 24/7 Live Monitoring (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Pause and rewind history (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Dashboard (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Alerts (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tracking Excel usage (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Relationship diagrams (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Technical documentation (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Interactive model navigation (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| License optimisation report (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Performance reports (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| All detailed data stored second by second (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Build your own dashboards (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| System summary report (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Model validation (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Automated change tracking (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Automatically finds dependencies (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Quickly rollback changes (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ | Separation of duties (built-in security) (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Monitoring CPU, RAM (TM1 instances) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Monitoring CPU, RAM (servers) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Monitoring disk space (servers) | ✔️ | |
| Live migration (ℹ️) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Offline migration (ℹ️) | ✔️ | |
| Stop/Start instances | ✔️ | |
| Tracking TM1 Web usage (ℹ️) | ✔️ |