We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Tableau, and TIBCO Jaspersoft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"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."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."
"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 end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."
"I give the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."
"The growth time is the most valuable feature of TIBCO Jaspersoft."
"The designer is the most valuable feature."
"With the online view, it's easier to create Ad Hoc reports. It has inbuilt reports so we can easily get data from the system and customize the fields."
"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"It could have more options for themes."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"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."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"Small multiples (a.k.a. Trellis charts) are possible only through very hacky means. Update: Still remains a challenge."
"We have products like Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, and QlikView in the data visualization segment. Compared to those, Tableau is quite costly."
"Implementation requires a technical background."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"TIBCO Jaspersoft would benefit from enabling you to run multiple reports in one file and incorporating more options related to multiple reports."
"A better focus should be put on self-service reporting."
"I would like to see some analysis done prior to data extraction. The data extraction itself could also be improved."
"I would like to see better support for big data."
"The Ad Hoc Report Writer does not include as many features as Tableau and needs to be improved to meet expectations."
"We'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing."
"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."
"Customization is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement."
