We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Knowage 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 most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The embedding feature is great."
"We can easily do our own customizations."
"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"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 tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Knowage is ranked 29th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Knowage is rated 7.6. 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 Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Knowage is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform.
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