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Featured Review
Carlos Larrad Salgado
Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department
IBM Cognos has helped improve the quality of our KPIs because we can now deliver data and reports without human intervention. We are using the... Read more →
Anonymous User
Effectively checks process performance, but not very intuitive solution
It does provide similar benefits as other process mining tools, like process visibility and transparency.
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Pros
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats.""If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense.""The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way.""Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling.​""It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports.""Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category.""Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users.""Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."

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"One feature I found really cool was the Conformance Engine.""I have found Software AG ARIS Process Mining scalable.""It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...On a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate the setup a nine.""The interface is simplified and easy to use.""It is very easy to work on the way the ETL happens in ARIS Process Mining."

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Cons
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures.""Need improvement towards Visualization.""Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos.""Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode).""The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution.""We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required.""The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved.""Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."

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"I guess we have many unnecessary steps within our processes. There is room for automation and room for enhancement within our application portfolio management...In short, I would like to eliminate unnecessary steps in some processes in this solution.""When the process models are transferred back to the design environment for further optimization and simulations, we need to see some improvements in the way the models get created in the design.""There should be a single site for modeling and mining.""The installation is straightforward, we didn't have any technical issues with installing. However, we needed support to complete the implementation.""Customizing KPIs and building dashboards were not as intuitive as other similar tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is need to assess the purchase license accordingly so as to avoid audit penalties."
  • "The pricing and licensing policies are comparatively cheaper than other products in the market ."
  • "IBM Cognos offers competitive pricing similar to other BI vendors in the market."
  • "Pricing should be improved."
  • "The pricing of this product is meant for medium to large-scale enterprises."
  • "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."
  • "It is quite pricy. I think Microsoft BI is cheaper. Tableau might also be cheaper, but it also depends on the usage. If you have very many users, Cognos can be a problem. It could be cheaper than Tableau but not for so many users. If you have a few thousand users, Tableau, which is generally quite expensive, can be cheaper than Cognos."

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  • "We pay for a license to use this solution."
  • "The pricing is based on licenses."
  • "It's highly-priced, so it's not exactly a cheap product...We are getting what we are paying for, so on a scale of one to ten, or one is low, and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."
  • "Looking at the value it gives, ARIS Process Mining's pricing is fair."

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    Anonymous User
    Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

    Valuable Features

    1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data visualization Turnaround time. 7. OBIEE Enterprise security Semantic model

    Room for Improvement

    1. SAP BO/BI Visualization 2. Tableau Scalability 3. IBM Cognos Ease of use 4. MS BI Visualization Ease of use 5. Pentaho Ease of use Semantic layer 6. QlikView Scalability 7. OBIEE Visualization Database connectivities

    Use of Solution

    I have used SAP for almost 12 years Tableau – Rate 6/10 overall but 9/10 for visualization. I have used it for three years IBM Cognos - Rate 7/10 and I have used it for three years MS BI - Rate 5/10 and I have used it for two years Pentaho - Rate 5/10 and I have used it for over five years QlikView- Rate 7/10 and I have used it for two years OBIEE – Rate 7/10 and I have used it for five years

    Customer Service and Technical Support

    Customer Service: SAP BO/BI - Below average Tableau - Good IBM Cognos - Average MS BI - Average Pentaho - Average QlikView - Above average OBIEE - Average Technical Support: SAP BO/BI - Below average Tableau - Good IBM Cognos - Average MS BI - Average Pentaho - Average QlikView - Above average OBIEE - Average

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    Questions from the Community
    Seeking lightweight open source BI software
    Top Answer:It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos… more »
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    What do you like most about IBM Cognos?
    Top Answer: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?
    Top Answer:The tool does not have much documentation on the internet. It is not easy to resolve issues by finding the reason for the problem on the internet. The tool needs to have more documentation on the… more »
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    What do you like most about Software AG ARIS Process Mining?
    Top Answer:It is very easy to work on the way the ETL happens in ARIS Process Mining.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Software AG ARIS ...
    Top Answer:Looking at the value it gives, ARIS Process Mining's pricing is fair. However, if you compare the product's price to others, you might possibly find it a little expensive. The licensing fee for ARIS… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Software AG ARIS Process Mining?
    Top Answer:Process mining solutions present in the market give the process discovery perspective. ARIS Process Mining is the only product suite that goes beyond the process discovery and analysis part. After… more »
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    Ranking
    7th
    out of 118 in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
    Views
    8,927
    Comparisons
    5,127
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    449
    Rating
    8.2
    14th
    out of 42 in Business Performance Management
    Views
    231
    Comparisons
    130
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    767
    Rating
    8.8
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    Also Known As
    Cognos, Cognos Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics
    ARIS Process Performance Manager
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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.”

    Increasing digital products and services, new business models, challenger brands and competitors emerging virtually overnight—all are forever changing your market. To survive, your company—no matter its size or industry—must rethink your business models and processes. Problem is, with so many players and parts to your enterprise, where should you begin? How can you see where to optimize processes to improve the customer experience or operational efficiency? Should you rethink distribution of resources, or start first with improving processes for a specific region or product?

    Find your answers with ARIS Process Mining at Software AG. With a 360-degree view of your processes, you’ll gain intelligent insights into your processes and their dependencies to find patterns, anomalies and opportunities for improvement. Compare processes in theory to processes as they are in the real world. See if processes execute as designed. This gives you a solid basis for making process improvement decisions. You can evaluate changes before making them to avoid added costs later on—and you can simulate and analyze process scenarios so you know the best way to improve them.

    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.
    AliCorp, Dubai Municipality, Encevo, PSA Groupe - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as being named a market leader for Process Mining with more than 30 years of experience in the business process management market, serving users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Insurance Company8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization58%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Government4%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Government10%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise62%
    Large Enterprise31%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Software AG ARIS Process Mining is ranked 14th in Business Performance Management with 6 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Software AG ARIS Process Mining is rated 8.8. 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 Software AG ARIS Process Mining writes "A stable cloud-based solution that allows optimization in addition to process discovery and analysis". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Software AG ARIS Process Mining is most compared with Celonis, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence and UiPath Process Mining.

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