We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and NetSuite Business Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"It is a stable product."
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"You can export almost anything whether it's graphics or data."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"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."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"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."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"Graphics are limited and could be improved."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while NetSuite Business Intelligence is ranked 32nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while NetSuite Business Intelligence is rated 10.0. 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 NetSuite Business Intelligence writes "Scripting is a great feature as is the ability to export almost anything". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas NetSuite Business Intelligence is most compared with Oracle OBIEE, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau.
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