We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and TIBCO Spotfire 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."We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"R and automation services."
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"The solution might be generic."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our IBM Cognos vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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