We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon QuickSight has introduced a new functionality called Q bar, which allows the user to do natural language queries and get additional insights using some built-in generative capabilities."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"The product is easy to learn."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"A valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is that it's a cloud-native service provided by AWS. As all platforms within my company run on AWS, that's the leverage of Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is also easy to use, and I find the native connectors from AWS valuable as well."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and QlikView, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. IBM Cognos report.
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