We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Teradata Vantage 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 correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"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'."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"I like writing preformance queries for preprocessing on AWS Cloud."
"It is quick, secure, and has less hassles because we don't have to involve our networking team, infrastructure, etc. It is very easy to deploy and make market ready."
"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."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The solution's support could be better."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"I would like more security and speed."
"I would like more security and speed."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Teradata Vantage is ranked 31st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Teradata Vantage 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 Teradata Vantage writes "It helps us with connectivity and making sure the data is secure". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Teradata Vantage is most compared with Teradata Data Lab and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. See our IBM Cognos vs. Teradata Vantage report.
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