We performed a comparison between Birst and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"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."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"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."
"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."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"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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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 131 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, 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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