"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Infor dEPM's got the best end-user reporting solution that keeps us motivated and moving forward with this solution only."
"Our customers have the solution deployed on the cloud or on-premises. The deployment took about a month."
"The planning capability is the most valuable feature."
"You can get the data directly from the database with Excel formulas."
"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."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"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 high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"The latest version has been cloud-enabled, but it requires a deeper understanding of programming skills compared to the previous versions, which were more user-friendly."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"The initial setup from a user perspective can be cumbersome and has room for improvement."
"The usability could be better."
IBM Cognos is ranked 3rd in Legacy BI Tools with 129 reviews while Infor dEPM is ranked 15th in Business Performance Management with 12 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Infor dEPM 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 Infor dEPM writes "Good report management, highly stable, and customizable". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Infor dEPM is most compared with Jedox, Oracle Hyperion, Domo and IBM Planning Analytics.
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