We performed a comparison between Anaconda and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code."
"With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages."
"The virtual environment is very good."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"It's interesting. It's user friendly. That's what makes it outstanding among the others. It has a collection of R, Python, and others. Their platform strategy has a collection of many other visualization tools, apart from Spyder and RStudio, which is really helpful for data science. For any data science professional, Anaconda is really handy. It has almost all the tools for data science."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors."
"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."
"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"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."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
"It also takes up a lot of space."
"A lot of people and companies are investing in creating automated data cleaning and processing environments. Anaconda is a bit behind in that area."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Anaconda can't handle heavy workloads."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"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."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"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."
Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 17 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Anaconda is rated 8.0, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Power BI and IBM SPSS Statistics, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform.
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