We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"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."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The Always On tool improves the SQL server availability."
"It is a stable product, and it runs seamlessly. It is not complex."
"It's a good learning environment, it's easy enough to learn and understand. Anybody that picks up the language early on will be able to develop in it."
"Most valuable features include: high availability, clustering, save backup and recovery."
"This solution is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"It helps with moving the design of the database into reality."
"This solution has proven stability and operational power."
"The solution is very common. It's easy to use."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"It could have more options for themes."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of exceptionally large databases, it doesn't scale as well as Oracle."
"The UX design of this system needs improvement."
"The solution could use better governance on the management side, especially around data governance."
"Sometimes, the tool doesn't support all the native features, and because of this, our company has to customize it to meet our requirements, which is a challenging process for our company's engineers."
"There are a few use cases where we do need the Active-Active options instead of Active-Passive, yet those kinds of options are not available for Microsoft."
"The interface integration could be better."
"It may be a licensing issue, but sometimes its operating speed becomes slow if we have multiple users. It's lacking some performance, but it's acceptable because we have a heavy load."
"In the next releases, I would only like more enhanced backups and more restore points."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and QlikView.
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