We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle OBIEE 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."When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is a stable product."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"We do you use Oracle support. We've been paying for an Oracle support subscription for four or five years, and not one ticket has ever been logged. When I came in, I've encouraged the team to ask Oracle questions. They do get back quite quickly. Their support is good. Working with our account managers, if I need to escalate anything, I can speak to them and they escalate the call. I've got that ecosystem working quite well. That does work for us."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report."
"It mostly supports enterprise level data. We have millions of records on a daily basis."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"I like the architecture of this solution. RPV is a powerful feature in Oracle OBIEE. It lets us design as per the needs of the organization. I can have multiple presentation folders and presentation layers. I can have customization in a single node in VMware, which is a very good feature of Oracle OBIEE. It helps customers in designing as per their requirements."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"It could have more options for themes."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"Oracle OBIEEE's performance and licensing costs could be improved."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"If the data is large, the dashboard takes a really long time. So, based on the database, if you have around a million cost contacts, the load time is very low, and the dashboard fails."
"It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."
"We needed some technical expertise during setup."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"We were not satisfied with the support, because we could not obtain answers or solutions."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Hyperion and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle OBIEE report.
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