We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The modeling features are very good."
"It is one of the most complete and great customer service that I experienced with a software company/ecosystem."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"The drag-and-drop functionality, the ready-to-use analytics module, and the ability to track my data pipelines visually are the solution's most valuable features."
"The data transformation feature is the most valuable. The ability to ingest data, visualize data, and transform that data is useful."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"The scheduling feature for the automation is excellent."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"Sometimes workflows tend to queue up, and they tend to get canceled for some reason that we don't know sometimes."
"The gallery could improve in Alteryx. Additionally, if there was a Conditional Join feature it would be beneficial. Since I do not have this feature I have to use Python scripts."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"They should work on its pricing."
"Alteryx is just as complicated as coding, in my opinion."
"What they're struggling with is it's not as mature as Tableau in the user management area. It was tougher to manage the server part of it right away, especially since the user base has grown."
"I'd like it to be easier to work with PDF."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"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."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"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."
"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."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"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."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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