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We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos Dashboard and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. Splunk Cloud Platform Report (Updated: March 2024).
771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"It is a pretty stable solution.""The product helps us update the KPI automatically.""The main feature that is useful is the on-demand report generation through the dashboard.""The tool's valuable features are that it is easy to use and stable."

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"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration.""I like the Cloud monitoring console feature.""We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices.""The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial.""The initial setup was straightforward.""The most valuable feature is we don't have to deal with any back-end server maintenance because the solution is cloud-based.""The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup.""The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is the alerting feature."

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Cons
"The scalability of the product's on-premises version is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.""The price point is one of the major areas to be improved.""Visualization is an area where the product lacks.""They should include proper documentation to learn more about the product."

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"Customization could be simplified.""There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use.""The pricing model makes the product costly.""Splunk should increase the frequency of new feature releases, particularly those related to real-time operational flow monitoring and analytics reporting.""There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available.""Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly.""They can streamline the process of creating custom apps.""I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Licensing is based on individual usage, and it is more expensive than other providers."
  • "The product is expensive for small businesses compared to other vendors."
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  • "The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
  • "The price is something that people complain about."
  • "The licensing costs depend on the state of your environment and the fees are paid on a monthly basis."
  • "The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
  • "There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
  • "The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
  • "I am familiar with the pricing and licensing model a little bit. I am not sure about the particulars of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingest approach because it allows us the ability to ingest more data if we need it."
  • "It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is expensive for small businesses compared to other vendors. Its pricing is fixed and depends on the number of licenses.
    Top Answer:The tool is good enough to serve the purpose of what it is meant in our company. The scalability of the product's on-premises version is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are… more »
    Top Answer:Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
    Top Answer:Splunk is a bit pricey, but it's reasonable for the features offered.
    Top Answer:Sometimes, integrating with other systems is difficult, and it isn't feasible to connect with other applications, but it's easy most of the time. I rate Splunk 7 out of 10 for its ability to integrate… more »
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    out of 71 in Data Visualization
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    3rd
    out of 71 in Data Visualization
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    Average Words per Review
    872
    Rating
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    Cognos Dashboard
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    Overview

    The IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded lets you, the developer, painlessly add end-to-end data visualization capabilities to your application so your users can easily drag and drop to quickly find valuable insight and create visualizations on their own

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company16%
    University9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Pharma/Biotech Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise66%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. Splunk Cloud Platform
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. Splunk Cloud Platform and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM Cognos Dashboard is ranked 16th in Data Visualization with 4 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 36 reviews. IBM Cognos Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos Dashboard writes "An easy-to-use and stable tool useful for its functionalities like analytics and AI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". IBM Cognos Dashboard is most compared with Apache Superset, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, AppInsights and Check Point Security Management. See our IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.

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