Redwood Reporting - Report2Web vs Sisense comparison

Redwood Software and Sisense are both solutions in the Reporting category. Redwood Software is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Sisense is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.3. Redwood Software holds a 0.1% mindshare in RT, compared to Sisense’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Redwood Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Sisense users who would recommend it.

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IBM Cognos

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of IBM Cognos is 4.4%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood Reporting - Report2Web is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sisense is 2.3%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Carlos Larrad Salgado

Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre

Jul 27, 2022

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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Gowri-Shankar

Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2023

A customizable solution that helps to pull reports and send them as emails

We were manually populating things but the tool has helped us automate the process. We could pull the report automatically and send it as an email. The tool is customizable, and it is not limited to any feature that it is built upon. You can do anything that you would like to do. You need to…

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Jun 22, 2022

Good solution for reporting and is fast compared to other solutions

My current position is as a Senior Consultant. I sell Sisense to my customers in Thailand. It is used for reporting and as an analytic dashboard The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions. Sisense has a…

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

Pros

"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."

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

"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."

"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."

"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."

"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."

"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."

"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."

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"We were manually populating things but the tool has helped us automate the process. We could pull the report automatically and send it as an email."

"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."

"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."

"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."

"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."

"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."

"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."

"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."

"Visually displaying data."

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Cons

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

"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."

"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."

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

"The solution seems to slow down the servers."

"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."

"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."

"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."

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"You need to put queries manually. When you customize, you need to put queries manually."

"The solution's setup process could be easier."

"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."

"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."

"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."

"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."

"I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone."

"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."

"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale from one to ten where one is low pricing and ten is high pricing, I would rate this solution at eight."

"I don't know the exact cost, but I believe Cognos is quite expensive, especially when it comes to the support consultants and the procedures that need to be applied."

"The cost of IBM Cognos it's more or less the same as most of the other solutions on the market. They're very competitive with the rest of the market and it is not the most expensive product."

"Pricing should be improved."

"The pricing of this product is meant for medium to large-scale enterprises."

"There is a standard license required to use this solution. There are some additional tools but I am not sure if they are an extra cost."

"The solution is affordable."

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

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"This solution is more expensive than Tableau, Qlik and Dundas. It is an expensive tool. They charge $75,000 while Tableau is $45,000."

"Compared to Power BI or Tableau, Sisense is much more expensive."

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Educational Organization

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Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

18%

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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 Redwood Reporting - Report2Web?

We were manually populating things but the tool has helped us automate the process. We could pull the report automati...

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What needs improvement with Redwood Reporting - Report2Web?

You need to put queries manually. When you customize, you need to put queries manually.

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What advice do you have for others considering Redwood Reporting - Report2Web?

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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What do you like most about Sisense?

The solution's technical support team is good.

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What needs improvement with Sisense?

I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone. I am more familiar with Wi...

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What is your primary use case for Sisense?

For the use case, the tool is mostly used from an analytic point of view. We are focused on huge data size because th...

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Compared 41% of the time

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Compared 30% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Cognos, Cognos Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics

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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.”

Redwood Reporting automatically delivers critical report output, when, where and how it is needed most. This eliminates the frustration, wasted time, and errors associated with manually accessing, calculating and mapping pieces of information from disparate systems and data sources.

Redwood Reporting provides:

Intuitive, browser-based access to reports from virtually any application
Push and pull options so that users have instant access to new and historical report content when needed
Optional analysis, decollation, and conversion of report content before distribution to support business and security rules
Automatic assembly of sections from disparate reports sources into personalized, unified documents for distribution via email or publication
Robust APIs for easy integration with existing business applications and instant content access
Easy administration of report access through security tools already within the user enterprise

Redwood Software was founded in 1993 with a singular goal – to free people from the effort associated with unnecessary manual activity. Redwood delivers automation solutions worldwide for workload and scheduling, finance, and report distribution. Its technology is built on modern, adaptable architecture that is uniquely designed to be delivered as-a-service for maximum benefit and scalability.

Sisense is an end-to-end business analytics software that enables users to easily prepare and analyze large, complex datasets. Sisense’s Single-Stack BI software includes data preparation, data management, analysis, visualization and reporting capabilities.

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.

Staples, Wells Fargo, WMF, Mercedes-Benz

Ebay, WIX, Wave Accounting, ESPN.com, Magellan Luxury Hotel, Paylogic, Sony, Merck, EDA, One Hour Translation, NASA, Plastic Jungle, Philips, Yahoo

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