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IBM Cognos Express [EOL] vs SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform comparison

 

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IBM Cognos Express [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP BusinessObjects Busines...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
103
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user175122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Needs a little bit of tuning but once setup and tuned correctly it's very stable.​
Building complex custom reports Bursting to specified users Data Warehouse accessible to users to quickly build their own reports Dashboards on KPI, scoring vs targets. Nothing I can think of now. 2 years. No issues encountered. Needs a little bit of tuning, once setup and tuned correctly…
MukeshMathur - PeerSpot reviewer
Visualization is better than other tools, offers good dashboard and analytics features but it is not easy to adapt to the product
As per my opinion, because SAP is a very worldwide product or very useful product, I'm not talking about improvement, because I just think that SAP can focus on the pricing factor. The cost of this product, so every company is not suitable to use it. Because of the very huge amount of integrations, every organization can not use it. So, it is a very costly product. Secondly, from an educational point of view, So, it is not easy to adapt to each and every IT person because some, most, in India, most cities, such as Delhi, Bangalore, or Chennai, only metro support the educational platform for that. So, just my suggestion is SAP should focus on every user; it should be easy to pick the product and, easy to carry, easy to use in every life. So, SAP must try to improve in this part.
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it_user6663 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 25, 2013
SAP Business Objects vs. Microsoft BI
A quick look at the whole idea on another weblogs gives you a sense that all of them just talked about very brief things like report refresh feature in BO or cube feature in MS Analysis Service. I choose MS BI and I want to share my reasons and opinions on why I choose it and give you another quick…
 

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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Government
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Seeking lightweight open source BI software
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
Tableau vs. Business Objects - Which is a better solution for visualization and analysis?
Both tools have their positives and negatives. First, I should mention that I am relatively new to Tableau. I have been working on and off Tableau for about a year, but getting to work on it consta...
What do you like most about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform?
What I like the most about SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is that it has significantly improved our decision-making process.
 

Also Known As

Cognos Express
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP BusinessObjects, Business Objects
 

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Gamma Powersports, Gasmart, University of Iceland, Monarch Industries, Mace, Quintiles, Argility, Talent2, Accelrys Inc., J. B. Poindexter and Co., FK Gardner and Sons Group
SRAM, Kennametal, Fairfax Water, British American Tobacco, Velux, and FedEx.
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