We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Infor dEPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"You can get the data directly from the database with Excel formulas."
"The planning capability is the most valuable feature."
"Our customers have the solution deployed on the cloud or on-premises. The deployment took about a month."
"Infor dEPM's got the best end-user reporting solution that keeps us motivated and moving forward with this solution only."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The solution's support could be better."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The usability could be better."
"The initial setup from a user perspective can be cumbersome and has room for improvement."
"The latest version has been cloud-enabled, but it requires a deeper understanding of programming skills compared to the previous versions, which were more user-friendly."
"It's a very expensive solution."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Infor dEPM is ranked 15th in Business Performance Management with 12 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Infor dEPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infor dEPM writes "Good report management, highly stable, and customizable". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Infor dEPM is most compared with Oracle Hyperion, Jedox and Domo.
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