User Reviews of IBM Cognos & Tableau

Updated March 2024

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IBM Cognos review

Carlos Larrad Salgado
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....
Tableau review

ROMIL SHAH
ROMIL SHAH
Deputy General Manger - Information Technology at Nayara Energy
Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create...
When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data...

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