We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Zoho Analytics 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."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"It could have more options for themes."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"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."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"In terms of improvement, they have a limited number of graphs available in their store. They should come up with more graph style forms. They should have more charts and at the same time, you can't create panels like with Microsoft BA."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"The tool needs to improve analysis and add more features."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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