We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."
"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."
"It's a very good program and it's useful for consolidation."
"This solution provides a more structured methodology for doing analysis than a tool like Excel. It creates a central database that keeps all information in one place."
"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."
"Scalability is one of this solution's big plus points."
"This is a customizable product. Our implementation was designed to fit our needs."
"This product is very scalable and provides high ROI."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"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 dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"We are still having some issues with the ASO Cube. It can take a long time to clear the data in the ASO Cube compared to BSO data-clearing operations. We don't have a specific calculation in the ASO, and we only have these aggregate options on the ASO side. If we need calculations, we have to calculate them in the BSO and pass the data to the ASO Cube for the reporting. That's one of the drawbacks. Oracle could also improve on the data logging side as well."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."
"The level of complexity of the implementation is always a challenge."
"All the planning systems out there are great. It doesn't matter which company you use. They're all great. I've seen demonstrations on a number of them, but it all boils down to the culture within the organization itself to use that functionality, understand it, and help drive it. I've had Oracle salespeople do demonstrations, and it looked really good. We get it on board, and everybody still sticks to their Excel spreadsheets because companies are a lot more complex than what you could deliver on the planning system. So, there should be more education on the capabilities, and there should be more understanding of organizations in terms of the way they access the data in order to plan."
"I have a problem with Hyperion when I need to log some changes in the budget. It's hard to know who made which changes in the budget."
"This solution's stability is a little problematic."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 49 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle Hyperion writes "A world-class solution that provides a lot of functionality out of the box and also allows you to customize it to meet your needs". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, Anaplan, Oracle HFM, IBM Planning Analytics and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
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