We performed a comparison between Board and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and the charts. The reporting functionality is handy for aggregation, when it comes to planning. That ability is fascinating and our users are very happy with it. The charts and the reporting allow our users to see all the data and to see how things are going this year or in the COVID situation. They're seeing everything. Instead of having to check data line by line, they're seeing it in a graph and they're seeing it in charts."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"The engine of the Board should be made powerful like the engine of IBM planning which is more powerful in terms of performance. The consolidated finance area also needs improvement."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"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."
Board is ranked 20th in Reporting with 35 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion 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 Board vs. IBM Cognos report.
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