We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Zoho Analytics 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."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."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"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 visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"In terms of improvement, they have a limited number of graphs available in their store. They should come up with more graph style forms. They should have more charts and at the same time, you can't create panels like with Microsoft BA."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
"The tool needs to improve analysis and add more features."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 24 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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