We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"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."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."
"It provides insights into leads, information about the team and about various sales activities. The graphical representations in the form of charts is excellent."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"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."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 24 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Zoho 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 Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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