We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"The value add of Alteryx is the agility for making changes, and speed of deployment."
"My primary focus is creating numerous data pulls, and Alteryx Server handles the automation well."
"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"The modeling features are very good."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"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."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"We can't browse multiple files. When we deploy a solution on a gallery, let's say I have ten different files, and I have to upload them all at once. This is something that's difficult in the gallery. So case by case, I see some downsides, but often we do something alternative."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"What they're struggling with is it's not as mature as Tableau in the user management area. It was tougher to manage the server part of it right away, especially since the user base has grown."
"I think they should really work on integrating or have a capacity to integrate some algorithmic code. I think that's one of the most important things they need to be doing."
"Alteryx's development environment could be improved as it requires installation locally and can't be developed in the cloud."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"Alteryx can improve in data science. They have to have more features and components in the data science aspect because they claim to be a data science tool. However, in order to be more competitive, they have to improve on their data science propositions. Thre are other solutions on the market, such as other players in the market, Data2Go or DataIQ, and Alteryx needs to catch up."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"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."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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