We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"The solution's support could be better."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are 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."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"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."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Quality of support varies."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is ranked 20th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service writes "Highly scalable with very good configuration, customization, and migration". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Analytics Cloud. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service report.
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