We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"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."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"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."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Technical support has been great."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"Has features that can be leveraged to scale out and scale up."
"I have seen improvement in our work after using the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"It can process big volumes of data fast."
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"The solution's support could be better."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"It is not simple to use."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"There is room for improvement in providing more user-friendly and versatile reporting options."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"It could be a lighter solution."
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