Sigma vs Sisense comparison

Sigma Computing and Sisense are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Sigma Computing is ranked #19 with an average rating of 9.3, while Sisense is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.3. Sigma Computing holds a 0.6% mindshare in BIT, compared to Sisense’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Sigma Computing users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Sisense users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Sigma and Sisense 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.

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IBM Cognos

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Cognos is 3.8%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sigma is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sisense is 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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Erik Jones

Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Streamlines reporting; like Excel on steroids

I think Sigma's dashboarding has room for improvement. They have a relatively limited number of visuals that you can use and sometimes I have a need for visualizations outside of the offerings that they have. I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma.

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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

"The initial setup was straightforward."

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

"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."

"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."

"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."

"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."

"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."

"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."

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"Sigma is a great software for non-technical business users. If someone's familiar with pivot tables or Excel or Google Sheets, they should be able to pick up Sigma pretty quickly. There is a very low bar for onboarding."

"The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."

"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."

"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."

"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."

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

"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."

"Visually displaying data."

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

"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."

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

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Cons

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

"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."

"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."

"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."

"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."

"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."

"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."

"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."

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"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."

"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."

"The product's roadmap regarding introducing new features in the solution or new versions of the tool can be made better in the future."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"

"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

"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."

"The solution is affordable."

"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."

"It is averagely priced."

"It is pretty expensive."

"There is need to assess the purchase license accordingly so as to avoid audit penalties."

"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."

"My company uses IBM Cognos with another IBM product, so I think only one license is used."

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"The retail price is set at one thousand dollars per creator per year."

"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

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

56%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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 Sigma?

The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sigma?

The viewer license is free, and the available licenses are for creators. The retail price is set at one thousand doll...

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What needs improvement with Sigma?

I have used the product on the cloud and the browser and found no issues with it. The product's roadmap regarding int...

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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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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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Compared 37% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

Apache Superset vs Sigma

Compared 18% of the time

Microsoft Power BI vs Sigma

Compared 11% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs Sigma

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 40% of the time

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Compared 29% of the time

Apache Superset vs Sisense

Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

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.”

Sigma is the next-generation of analytics for cloud data warehouses with a familiar spreadsheet-like interface that gives business experts the power to ask any question of their data no matter the query.

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.

Snowflake, Fivetran ,Autodesk, Flowspace, Super League Gaming, Zumper, Clover, Volta, Olivela

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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