We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAP Analytics Cloud 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 most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"It offers good backup capabilities."
"The ability to collaborate and plan together is great."
"What my customers like best about SAP Analytics Cloud is the dashboard because it's pretty good."
"The visualizations have been the most valuable feature."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is easy to create charts with, and is a stable business intelligence platform. Easy to set up solution."
"The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"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."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"It seems like there's a problem with the tool's licenses. If there are a lot of users, like 200, who only use the solution once a year, paying for a full-year license for each user is expensive. There's no option for users who only use the solution occasionally."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"SAP Analytics Cloud should improve the dashboard."
"Some algorithms are complex and can't be processed by just tagging the data and expecting results."
"I think it would be easier if there was another module created to retrieve only data."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAP Analytics Cloud 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and MicroStrategy, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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