We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"The solution is stable."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application."
"Can utilize SQL queries to generate reports directly."
"There are a lot of functions in the product, including a drill-down functionality and level-based hierarchies that are very attractive."
"We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE, for me, would be the Web Catalog. From a development perspective, I do not need any client or any software to be installed on my laptop or desktop. Everything is browser-based, so I just open the browser and start development."
"In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The solution's support could be better."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"It could have more options for themes."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"Oracle OBIEE could improve by having better integration and compatibility with other vendors."
"The drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it."
"Oracle products have a lot of complications...Oracle has a history of not really providing great support."
"I would like to see Machine Learning included in this solution."
"Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved."
"This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product."
