We performed a comparison between Domo and IBM Cognos 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 ease of use, overall, is one of the valuable features, as is the ease of setup. Other than making sure IT was aware of, and agreed with our proceeding, we did not need IT for any of the setup. The ease of setup is more valuable than you might think. The ease of configuring the security policies, setting up groups, and setting up personalized data permissions so that only certain people can see certain data — that stuff is amazing... Domo really is extraordinarily full-featured, but it's really easy to use."
"The most valuable feature currently is the self-service BI availability in Domo. I would say the data file fabric solutions where the users themselves are responsible for generating their own reports."
"What makes me really fond of Domo is the ETL because it enables us to maximize a single platform for pulling reports and automating things. We can send the raw data from a third-party platform and do the rest of the ETL in Domo, including transforming data, adding columns, etc."
"The data certification feature, where the admin user can put a certified stamp on a data source so that other users can know that that is the correct and accurate data flow or data source to use, is a good feature."
"In general, Domo is very powerful and very easy to use, relatively speaking."
"It has the best GUI. And it already has an ETL tool embedded in it..."
"One feature which I have found to be very interesting is the Beast manager, where you can create calculated fields. They are shared in one common repository so someone else can use the same calculated fields; they don't have to rewrite or reinvent the APIs."
"We find the ease of using the solution valuable."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"One of the improvements that could be made is related to improved storage options."
"If Domo had a Copilot feature, you could interact with the graphs and talk to the graphs and tables."
"The preconfigured apps need to be more relevant to allow one, out of the box, to load data in order to use pre-set reports/views."
"I would like to see more dashboard creation options."
"There's a learning curve before you can get used to the solution."
"They should include service-based reporting features."
"Their organization or client service didn't always keep up... They took on more and more clients and the processes slowed down a little bit."
"In Tableau, you can create virtually any kind of visualization. Based on your creativity, you can create a visualization on a human body structure, you can create a visualization on anything that you want. But Domo is limited to a few kinds of visualization views: standard things like bar, pie, and some other charts... I would like to see them add new views for presenting the data in the visualization space."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"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."
Domo is ranked 11th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Domo is rated 7.8, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Domo writes "Robust, powerful, and easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Domo is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Looker and Infor dEPM, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Domo vs. IBM Cognos report.
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