We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 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."If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"It is a stable product."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"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 provides flexibility for creating reports. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. Its performance is good. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"The most important feature of BusinessObjects is its integration with the SAP ERP system. If an organization is using SAP as its ERP system, and they want to do business intelligence, reporting, or analysis, SAP BusinessObjects is the only tool that I see doing that quite efficiently. That's because of the fact it is tightly integrated, and it gives a good user experience in terms of faster reporting. Its integration is the feature that I have found most valuable, but there are also other factors."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
"We are using SAP BusinessObjects because its scheduling capabilities are more powerful than those of other tools."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
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"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"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."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"There should be more integration with other platforms."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"It is not simple to use."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Factoring in total implementation and maintenance costs, SAP BusinessObjects is too expensive. If you deal with a huge amount of data, you can go with BusinessObjects. However, if you are a medium-sized company with a modest amount of data, you can opt for another solution."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 103 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8. 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 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and Amazon QuickSight, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Oracle Essbase and Looker. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform report.
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