We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"Shortens the time required to start analyzing data and looking for insights, minimizing the tasks that do not add value to the business and maximizing the analysis phase."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its unlimited handling capabilities."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its stand-alone version that we do not have to download dependencies for loads. Additionally, the scan is useful for beginners."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"Alteryx's development environment could be improved as it requires installation locally and can't be developed in the cloud."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"I think they should really work on integrating or have a capacity to integrate some algorithmic code. I think that's one of the most important things they need to be doing."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"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."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"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."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"It could have more options for themes."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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