We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"This product is very scalable and provides high ROI."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"It is easy to use. It is very intuitive. Even though there is a lot of functionality that comes out of the box, you can customize the solutions to meet your needs. You have the ability to have business rules that produce all kinds of calculations. We're international, and we do all our FX conversions through that."
"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."
"Scalability is one of this solution's big plus points."
"Hyperion is helpful for all our budget processes."
"Oracle Hyperion is an engine allowing you to build whatever you want on it."
"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"The most valuable feature is the 3D charting."
"Tableau has comprehensive, insightful charts, which allow you to build stunning dashboards and enrich your support decision-making."
"We frequently utilize visualizations using maps and different objects, all with rich coloring options. And tooltips are absolutely essential for us. Tooltips, like the pop-up descriptions when you hover over some object or graph. Those tooltips in Tableau are great features."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"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."
"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."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Their documentation could be a little bit more descriptive at places. They don't really do a lot of How-Tos because that gets pushed through to the consulting groups. There have been some books. There is a real good one out there about how to look smarter than you are with Hyperion Planning that some people at a company called ArganoInterRel wrote. Those things do exist, but that's not in their documentation. It's basically like they'll say, "This is the field. This is what it's used for," but they don't tell you how to particularly use it in your case environment."
"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."
"We are still having some issues with the ASO Cube. It can take a long time to clear the data in the ASO Cube compared to BSO data-clearing operations. We don't have a specific calculation in the ASO, and we only have these aggregate options on the ASO side. If we need calculations, we have to calculate them in the BSO and pass the data to the ASO Cube for the reporting. That's one of the drawbacks. Oracle could also improve on the data logging side as well."
"The analytics could be improved."
"The forecasting of values could be simplified in this solution."
"Integrating Oracle Hyperion, a multidimensional database, with relational databases poses challenges due to the differing database structures."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
"When you create new fields in Tableau and you enter the formulas, there is a new small window that is there in the interface. You can enter the calculated fields, it could be more user-friendly. At this time it is limited and hard to understand at the beginning. The fields should be easier to use, such as in Microsoft Excel. You can have a difficult time understanding what to do in the fields, you end up doing trial and error to figure it out."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
"Requires a lot of user training."
