We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"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."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"The most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"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."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"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."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"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."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"It could have more options for themes."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
"Quality of support varies."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 129 reviews while Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is rated 7.2. 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 Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service writes "Highly scalable with very good configuration, customization, and migration". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Analytics Cloud. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service report.
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