Amazon QuickSight vs Mode Analytics comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Mode are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.4, while Mode is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.8. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 8.1% mindshare in BIT, compared to Mode’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 60% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Mode users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Mode Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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IBM Cognos

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Cognos is 3.8%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon QuickSight is 8.1%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Mode Analytics is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Carlos Larrad Salgado

Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre

Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department

I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality. The user experience is also very important. Cognos is not very easy to understand sometimes, especially when they change the layout but keep the functionality the same. The help is not very graphic and they have no examples. Cognos has to make a big effort to help with understanding the functionality by improving the documentation. There is a lot of documentation, but the examples are hard to find and they should make their help section easier to understand for non-technical users.

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Anoop Jose

Senior Manager - Architecture and engineering excellence at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Helpful for visualization purposes but delayed drill-downs feature

Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking. Especially for root cause analysis, the ability to drill down from a high-level problem to its root is crucial. Aside from that, QuickSight is a good service.

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Yoeri Samwel

Logistical engineer at DSV

Helps to run Python-based scripts but needs enhancement in user experience

The most important feature of the solution is the ability to run Python-based scripts. Mode Analytics needs to improve the overall user experience. I have been working with the solution for two years. I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. I rate the tool's scalability a seven…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."

"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."

"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."

"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."

"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."

"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."

"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."

"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."

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"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."

"The solution is simple to implement."

"It has a lot of valuable features, but the most important aspect is the affordable cost. This solution costs much less in comparison to the competitors like Qlik Sense, Power BI, and Tableau."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."

"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."

"Amazon QuickSight can provide insights from the available data. It supports various rule types. We get the options of machine learning and insights, which are not available in other intelligence tools. It is easier to use, more stable, and cheaper than other solutions."

"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."

"QuickSight makes it easy to provision, create, and publish dashboards."

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"The tool helps to catch results and review them."

"The solution is simple for people from a viewing perspective, not a coding perspective."

"The most important feature of the solution is the ability to run Python-based scripts."

"The most valuable feature I would say is the flexibility in editing."

Cons

"It is a costly product; it is comparatively expensive."

"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."

"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."

"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."

"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."

"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."

"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."

"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."

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"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."

"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."

"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."

"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."

"It is a simple tool with limited features. Its visualization set is very limited, and it also has limited functionality. An intelligence tool should not be only for creating reports. Currently, we have to do all computational and mathematical operations outside. We should be able to do such operations in an intelligence tool like this. As an intelligence tool, it should support dynamic refresh. QuickSight currently supports the refresh at a minimum of one hour, and it is not suitable for dynamic dashboards that require frequent refreshes."

"The cost of queries is very high."

"Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking."

"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."

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"The data visualization is cumbersome in Mode Analytics. I want the solution to add a map that has an easy interface. The UI is slow sometimes."

"Mode Analytics needs to improve the overall user experience."

"I think in terms of User Interface, I would say it can be better."

"The solution could run faster."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs are a little bit higher for IBM Cognos. I don't think there is any additional cost apart from the licensing charges."

"The pricing and licensing policies are comparatively cheaper than other products in the market ."

"Pricing should be improved."

"The solution is affordable."

"My company uses IBM Cognos with another IBM product, so I think only one license is used."

"There is some additional licensing that we needed to purchase because we were touching data outside of our core data platform. The cost was approximately $25,000 for the additional licenses, which were approximate 45 licenses. For the application itself, updates, and the core platform it was approximately $50,000. Giving a total cost of $75,000 annually for our usage of IBM Cognos."

"It is my understanding that the cost is very low. It's not very expensive."

"Cognos is super expensive compared to Tableau ($70/month) and Power BI ($20/month) — I think Cognos is roughly $200 a month."

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"I rate the price of Amazon QuickSight a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The standard edition is free to use for exploration purposes while the enterprise edition needs to be paid for. The pricing for this solution is very reasonable."

"Amazon QuickSight you subscribe and you use the service."

"The product pricing is better than other vendors."

"The pricing is cost-effective with a good plan."

"It is simpler and cheaper than other solutions."

"It's affordable compared to other long-term contractor business tools available in the market."

"I'm using a paid version of Amazon QuickSight, paying about $22 monthly. As I have yet to learn about the pricing for other tools, such as Power BI, I won't be able to compare."

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"My decision-maker found the pricing expensive, but it is okay for me."

"The pricing is per user."

"Mode Analytics is cheap compared to other tools."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

55%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

27%

Media Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik ...

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What do you like most about IBM Cognos?

The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cognos?

I need improvements, particularly with the Framework Manager, which has an outdated user interface from older version...

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What do you like most about Amazon QuickSight?

The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon QuickSight?

QuickSight is considered cost-effective. As far as I know, QuickSight is cheaper compared to other solutions like Pow...

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What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

QuickSight needs to add more visuals similar to what Power BI offers. I have noticed that many drill-down visuals and...

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What do you like most about Mode Analytics?

The solution is simple for people from a viewing perspective, not a coding perspective.

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What needs improvement with Mode Analytics?

The solution could run faster. You just sit there, waiting during the load times, especially for the large ones. And ...

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What is your primary use case for Mode Analytics?

I was put in charge of creating a lot of the dashboards, so it was very much that there weren't people at the company...

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 45% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Also Known As

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Overview

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a wide range of tools to help you analyze your organization's data. IBM Cognos BI allows businesses to monitor events and metrics, create and view business reports, and analyze data to help them make effective business decisions.

IBM Cognos applies techniques to describe, summarize, and compare data, and draw conclusions. This allows users to see trends and discover anomalies or variances that may not be evident by simply reading data. Data sources that contain information from different areas of a business can be stored in separate packages. Users can see only information that they have been granted access to, based on their group or role.

IBM Cognos BI consolidates the following business intelligence functions into a single web-based solution:

IBM Cognos Insight: Create personal and managed workspaces for data analysis. Using these interactive workspaces, you can share insight results with managers. Cognos Insight supports write-back, and you can also use these workspaces to capture and integrate management goals, commitments, and forecasts.
IBM Cognos Workspace: With IBM Cognos Workspace, you can create rich, interactive workspaces using IBM Cognos content as well as data from external sources. You can view and open your favorite workspaces and reports, edit content in your workspaces, and share your workspaces via email.
IBM Cognos Analytics: IBM Cognos Analytics utilizes built-in AI and intuitive searches which helps users to quickly create the visualizations and a wide range of reports. Cognos Analytics provides cognitive and managed self-service, enabling you to gain insights from controlled and trusted data.
IBM Cognos Report Studio and IBM Cognos Query Studio: Easily create structured and query reports. IBM Cognos allows users to create application and report templates. In addition, report authors can reuse report objects to apply filters, fields, and styles to reports. Users can set the language of the user interface and report content according to the user's native language.
IBM Cognos Event Studio: Receive notifications of events that occur within your organization in real time. Event Studio enables the creation of agents that detect the occurrence of business events, failures, or anomalies, based on the change of specific events or data conditions. Notification can be sent via email, publication in the portal, or by triggering reports.
IBM Cognos Connection: This is the Web portal for IBM Cognos BI and is the central area for accessing all the IBM Cognos functions. In the web portal, users can schedule and distribute reports, create tasks, administer the server and the access permissions, and more.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM Cognos stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its powerful analysis tool and its reporting capabilities.

Prasad B., a senior software engineer at a financial services firm, notes, “The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report. We can receive automated reports as well. They are easy to schedule on a weekly or monthly basis. It is very fast. I mean in means of report output, it's very fast compared to the actual clients involved.”

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Using our cloud-based service you can easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

Mode builds technology that helps analysts and data scientists unlock the value in data. The collaborative analytics platform tightly integrates SQL queries, Python notebooks, and reporting tools to make a profound impact on an entire organization's ability to use data effectively. Mode drives data-informed decisions at innovative companies including Clover Health, Thumbtack, Twitch, and Zenefits. Mode also supports the analytics community with free learning resources, open source SQL queries, and offers its tools for free to anyone analyzing public data.

Sample Customers

More than 23,000 leading organizations across multiple industries use Cognos. Some examples of Cognos customers include BMW Financial Services, Quinte Health Care, Troy Corporation, Michigan State University, and GKN Land System.

MLB Advanced Media, Infor, HotelBeds, Gemini, Jivochat, Edmunds.com

Lyft, Zenefits, Twitch, Trello, Clover, Grovo, CrowdFlower, Segment, Everlane, Pocket, Highfive

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