We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Alteryx has a good UI. We use it frequently in our projects. The tool comes with drag-and-drop features and is easy to understand for business needs. One situation where Alteryx's advanced analytics capabilities were particularly beneficial for us was during a forecasting project. Unlike Python, which requires coding, Alteryx simplifies the process significantly. With Alteryx, users can adjust parameters within the user interface without writing any code."
"I believe that the ability to leverage the gallery for scalability, as well as the general data blending functionality, is most beneficial to our core-based users."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"Alteryx is a low-code platform, and that's the biggest reason why we chose it."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"Alteryx makes it easy for the end customer to see clean data in a structured form."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"There could be a bit of improvement related to performance. Sometimes it demands a lot of resources for running it, like memory and search."
"It would be nice if they can provide Alteryx with more options for In-DB connectivity. That functionality is there, but it doesn't include all software we are connecting."
"There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients."
"They can provide some pre-built tools for predictive analytics instead of us having to build all the tools. It should also be improved from the visualization aspect. It should have better visualization capabilities. There are tools out there that have better visualization capabilities, which Alteryx is lacking currently."
"The price of the solution could improve by being lower."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"Alteryx is just as complicated as coding, in my opinion."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"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."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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