We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"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 three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"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."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"Data preparation is fantastic and fast. We were able to use multiple data sources and prepare the data quickly."
"It's valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and doesn't require much time for understanding. The solution is stable. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features of the solution are dashboarding and data visualization."
"A valuable feature is the speed of the solution."
"It plays a crucial role in facilitating decision-making for various organizational stakeholders."
"The specific capability I find important in Oracle Analytics Cloud is that it allows the basic user to easily drag and drop data. I also like that the solution allows the user to decide what to measure and what to see in the reports."
"Mobility is the most valuable feature for us. All employees can access it from anywhere. It is a big advantage for us."
"Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
"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."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."
"At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."
"When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
"It is expensive."
"The product should be improved in terms of connectors; right now the top twenty connectors are available, but OneDrive and Teradata are missing."
"It's not a failure of the product; it's just an architectural choice. It has to do with data modeling. I'm comparing this to another product, which is Oracle's developer client and probably called Oracle BI Developer Client Tool. The data modeler, which is cloud-based, and Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is local or on-premises-based, both can do the same thing in data modeling. However, the cloud tool does not have as many features as the Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is closest to the OBIEE Administration Tool with full feature data modeling, metadata development, and so forth. In a complex environment or implementation, that is the capability that you need."
"One area of improvement is associated with more connectors needing to be added such as Microsoft OneDrive, Teradata and a few others. I think the list is limited to the top ones now."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle Analytics Cloud is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle Analytics Cloud writes "Reliable, capable of handling massive amounts of data, and good value for money". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is most compared with Databricks, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Amazon QuickSight. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud report.
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