We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Salesforce Einstein Analytics 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."Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The tool is valuable. It's one of the greatest programs I'm currently working with, and I believe it will continue to be crucial in the next four to five years. It's the future of our operations. Integrating other systems and conducting campaigns is easy. The solution relies heavily on AI."
"Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a simplified CRM. It's integration is good."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It is a comprehensive solution. It has everything in it. I can easily find what I need."
"Einstein Analytics provides insights into what we are doing and how we are doing it. It tells us what benchmarks we need to hit consistently to achieve our goals. In sales, there is sometimes a disconnect between actions and objectives. We aren't necessarily going to close a deal because we call X number of people. There are some underlying skills that add nuance to these metrics."
"It's scalable."
"he most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of use."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."
"The tool needs to simplify its features."
"The price of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is quite a bit expensive for the region of Mexico. I think the price of the product could be better."
"The product is expensive."
"All of the timesheets and appraisal management I have not been happy with. There should be some improvements. For example, as a management team, our managers do not have access to see a summary report, such as who is on leave today or how many hours each person logged in. You have to get into individual users and see. You cannot see a summary report, the reporting is missing. There should improve the reports."
"If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
"The product must be more transparent."
"They can provide more end-user customizations. There should be the possibility for the end-users to change some elements in the interface. I have a way of doing my job. My colleague may have his own way of doing his job. If I ask for a change, it'll change for everyone. It'll be good to have some end-user personalizations. I can't see many in Salesforce right now."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Salesforce Einstein Analytics writes "Helpful consistent measurements, high availability, and scales well". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Salesforce Einstein Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our IBM Cognos vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics report.
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