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."We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"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."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The solution can scale."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
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"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"Its data visualization tool is not as good as Power BI and Tableau. Currently, for data visualization, you need to spend more money to buy another solution such as Power BI or Tableau. It is also very hard to integrate it with other third-party solutions. Its integration with other solutions should be improved."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"We're an Epic shop, and Epic is moving away from Crystal. It would be nice if it had tighter integration with products like Epic. It would be awesome to have better integration with third-party products."
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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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