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

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

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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FernandoMorote

Senior Software Engineer/BI Data Analyst at a analyst firm with 501-1,000 employees

Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights

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. We have also experienced bugs in the widget which has required us to delete the widget and recreate it. When one user adds filters to data, the next user sees the same results which can cause confusion. The next user can also make changes to the data.

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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

"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."

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

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

"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."

"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."

"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."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."

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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."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."

"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."

"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."

"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."

"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."

"This solution is easy to learn how to use."

"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."

"Sisense can integrate with multiple sources at one time."

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Cons

"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."

"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."

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

"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."

"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."

"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."

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

"It could have more options for themes."

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

"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."

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

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

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

"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."

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

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The solution is affordable."

"I rate the product price as four or five on a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"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."

"IBM Cognos price is on the higher side of the spectrum. However, with the features that it brings, such as correlation analysis, it's worth the money. They should look at the pricing more clearly because it's a little on the higher side."

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

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Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

16%

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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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Comparisons

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Compared 13% of the time

Tableau vs IBM Cognos

Compared 10% of the time

Oracle Hyperion vs IBM Cognos

Compared 10% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs IBM Cognos

Compared 8% of the time

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs IBM Cognos

Compared 7% of the time

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Microsoft Power BI vs Sisense

Compared 40% of the time

Tableau vs Sisense

Compared 29% of the time

Apache Superset vs Sisense

Compared 16% of the time

Databricks vs Sisense

Compared 5% of the time

Qlik Sense vs Sisense

Compared 4% of the time

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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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