We performed a comparison between AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"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."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
"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."
"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."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than 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."
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AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is ranked 37th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is rated 5.0, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) writes "The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is most compared with Denodo, Dremio, ThoughtSpot, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Alation Data Catalog, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion.
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