We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAS Visual 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 product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"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."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The technical support services are good."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"The solution's support could be better."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"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."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"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."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"The solution should improve its graphics."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"SAS Visual Analytics could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics 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 SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Amazon SageMaker. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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