User Reviews of IBM Cognos & SAP Crystal Reports
Updated March 2024
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IBM Cognos review
Carlos Larrad Salgado
Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre
Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department
I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality....
SAP Crystal Reports review
Alain Vanhaeght
IT Project leader at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
A scalable solution that can be used for operational reporting
Since it's a visual tool, what you design on your screen is what you get on your paper. The solution is really paper-oriented. SAP Crystal Reports is really a tool where the output is either a PDF or a printout. We have two steps. The first step is to send all commercial documents to customers, including quotations, order confirmation,...
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