We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"The most valuable feature for me is integration."
"Alteryx makes it easy for the end customer to see clean data in a structured form."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The value add of Alteryx is the agility for making changes, and speed of deployment."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"I think they should really work on integrating or have a capacity to integrate some algorithmic code. I think that's one of the most important things they need to be doing."
"I mostly used it for flat files, but I have many colleagues who reported that to tune a query, in case they want to directly connect to the database, there is no option to optimize the performance of the query, as we have in Informatica."
"It would be great if Alteryx could take third party tools and incorporate them."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"All of the reports are migrated or exported in an Excel file, and most of the time, a business intelligence tool is required. They could have better reporting. The aesthetic could be improved."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"It could have more options for themes."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 3rd in Legacy BI Tools with 129 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Qlik Sense, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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