We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The email traffic analysis feature is very useful."
"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."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"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."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"I am primarily interested in reporting and automation improvements."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is ranked 18th in Reporting with 1 review. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus writes "Helps track down missing emails and detects abnormal mail flow and identifies issues with the mail server". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus is most compared with .
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