We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Infor dEPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"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'."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"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 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."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"The usability could be better."
"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."
"The initial setup from a user perspective can be cumbersome and has room for improvement."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 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, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Infor dEPM is most compared with Oracle Hyperion, Jedox, Domo and IBM Planning Analytics.
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