We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle OBIEE 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."The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"Ability to create our own reports."
"It has helped to consolidate data and report on a single version of the truth."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology."
"It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The solution's support could be better."
"For a beginner, this is a product that is difficult to learn. You cannot learn it quickly."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges."
"Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved."
"It should have more self-service capabilities."
"There's a lot of redundancy, especially in relation to creating the code."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"Its functionality is lacking."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Hyperion and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle OBIEE report.
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