We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 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 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 most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"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 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."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"We use it to identify critical KPIs to senior management."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The solution is stable."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
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"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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 Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"It is limited for us because SAP is shifting toward the cloud, and we can't use a cloud solution for SAP BusinessObjects. SAP introduced a product called PlusTimes one or two years ago and another one that I believe was called Automatic BI. This tool is more powerful than BusinessObjects and other tools because it's provided in the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"It could be a lighter solution."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. 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 BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and Amazon QuickSight, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, MicroStrategy and Looker. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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