We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Teradata Analytics [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"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."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Provides ease of formulating a solution based on SQL-like queries."
"nPath has made journey/path analysis much easier."
"It has been fantastic for running complete data sets (no sampling required)."
"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."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"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."
"We have struggled with uptime. Some of the features need to be updated."
"I would like to see more/better documentation. They also need to enhance analytic/data science algorithms."
"I have found some problems with the figures depicted on graphs and figures shown, like scores which could not be negative but which were depicted as such."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Teradata Analytics [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Teradata Analytics [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 Teradata Analytics [EOL] writes "Streamlines formulating solutions based on SQL-like queries". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Teradata Analytics [EOL] is most compared with .
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