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."Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"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 correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"It is solid and stable."
"The report development tool called SAP Web Intelligence under the BI Launch Pad portal has been the most valuable feature."
"The platform is a complete enterprise-level tool where everything is integrated to suffice your requirement."
"The web intelligence reporting tool and universe designer are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The reporting features the solution offers are excellent."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
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"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"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."
"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."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The solution could be less expensive. It's a bit pricey now."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive and not cost-effective. It should also be improved in terms of end-user experience. It requires further improvements for usability and ease of use. It should have more dashboarding metrics and much faster integration with ERP so that when you double click, you can instantly see the scenario-based result."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"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."
"The SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has always struggled with dashboarding."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
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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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