We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and TIBCO Jaspersoft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"The end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."
"The solution is standalone with the flexibility to use visualize.js to embed within the application."
"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."
"It's easy to use and maintain."
"The designer is the most valuable feature."
"The growth time is the most valuable feature of TIBCO Jaspersoft."
"The feature that I like most is the drag and drop capability."
"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"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."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"The Ad Hoc Report Writer does not include as many features as Tableau and needs to be improved to meet expectations."
"We'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing."
"Currently, JSON format is the main format we use, however, in TIBCO Jaspersoft, XML format is the default and JSON did not work because TIBCO did not fix it."
"TIBCO Jaspersoft would benefit from enabling you to run multiple reports in one file and incorporating more options related to multiple reports."
"I would like to see better support for big data."
"I would like to see some analysis done prior to data extraction. The data extraction itself could also be improved."
"There might be some compatibility issues with the dashboard if we're using the latest version and some clients are using the older version. Some features might not be supported."
"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."