We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Sisense 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 solution's initial setup process is easy."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"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'."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"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."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 129 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. Sisense report.
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