We performed a comparison between Adaptive Insights 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 utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."
"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."
"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."
"It's very stable."
"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."
"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."
"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."
"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."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."
"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."
"The product's configuration process could be faster."
"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."
"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."
"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."
"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."
"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"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."
"It could have more options for themes."
"The solution's support could be better."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
Adaptive Insights is ranked 11th in Reporting with 18 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews. Adaptive Insights is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Adaptive Insights writes "Facilitates leveraging the query reporting engine and modeling engine into Excel spreadsheets but there is room for improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Adaptive Insights is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and Oracle HFM, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. See our Adaptive Insights vs. IBM Cognos report.
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