We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight 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 with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The product is easy to learn."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"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."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"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."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."
"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."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"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."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and QlikView, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. IBM Cognos report.
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