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 most valuable feature is the Jupyter notebook that allows us to write the Python code, compile it on the fly, and then look at the results."
"I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks."
"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."
"The solution is stable."
"The virtual environment is very good."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."
"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"The solution would benefit from offering more automation."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."
"Anaconda can't handle heavy workloads."
"It crashes once in a while. In case of a reboot or something unexpected, the unseen code part will get diminished, and it relatively takes longer than other applications when a reboot is happening. They can improve in these areas. They can also bring some database software. They have software for analytics and virtualization. However, they don't have any software for the database."
"The interface could be improved. Other solutions, like Visual Studio, have much better UI."
"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 could benefit from improvement in its user interface to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Currently, it's boring."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"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."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 15 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Anaconda is rated 7.8, 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, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion.
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