We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Salesforce Einstein 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."The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"It is a comprehensive solution. It has everything in it. I can easily find what I need."
"The out-of-the-box features are good for companies that want to try analytics and data science interventions."
"The fact that the solution is visually appealing because of its lightning interfaces can be considered one of its most valuable features"
"We have found the scalability to be very good."
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is the reporting tools."
"It's scalable."
"Salesforce Einstein Analytics is a simplified CRM. It's integration is good."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If I could improve Tableau CRM I would make it as powerful as Tableau. Tableau CRM is more integrated and it's on the web, but it has less functionality. It is lacking functionality at this time."
"There are some offerings like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud that have very useful online learning options. There need to be more avenues for self-learning with this particular solution. That would be useful."
"If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records."
"The product is expensive."
"The tool needs to simplify its features."
"The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms."
"They have a lot of opportunity to improve BI tools. With Einstein Analytics, we have a very minimal scope."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is ranked 12th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Einstein 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 Salesforce Einstein Analytics writes "Helpful consistent measurements, high availability, and scales well". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Salesforce Einstein Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, SAP Analytics Cloud and Zoho Analytics. See our IBM Cognos vs. Salesforce Einstein Analytics report.
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