We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAP Analytics Cloud 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 solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"The ability to collaborate and plan together is great."
"Data integration is very good."
"Planning and integration are the most valuable features. It is useful for planning, and it is useful for integrating with on-prem or cloud SAP solutions."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"The solution's support could be better."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"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."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"SAP could add more templates to the platform."
"Live Data Models are very slow and the setup can be improved, with tools such as Cloud Connector being inbuilt into SAP Analytics Cloud. Likewise, we need to write application code from scratch, rather than tweaking existing code, as we might with Excel macros. Moreover, when using responsive pages, the widgets get adjusted according to the mobile screen. As a result, when I place two or three KPI tiles, they can only be viewed tile-by-tile. We want to see the full dashboard on the mobile screen and zoom in to click on a particular section of the dashboard and go further into that. But displaying tile-by-tile makes it very annoying and the upper management using this dashboard might not be aware there are any more tiles to view."
"I am not happy with the predictive analytics features and smart features offered by the product, making them areas where improvements are required."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"SAP Analytics Cloud requires a lot of coding and I would like the coding to be somewhat minimal."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and MicroStrategy, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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