We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."It is a stable product."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"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."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"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 solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Oracle Hyperion has helped make things work faster in our company."
"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"We can integrate with any system and pull data from SAP or SQL Server. We can also design our own role files to establish how we pull the file data and store it in our database."
"We like the reporting and tracking of financials."
"Oracle Hyperion is fairly user-friendly and not too complicated. The forecasting, it's really good. It's sometimes slow when there are a lot of users using it and we can have up to approximately 300 users using it. However, you can do it in Excel because there's an Excel add-in. This is a benefit because a lot of people do this way instead of having to go into the planning application itself."
"The most valuable features are those associated with modules and SP, IT in this space, planning, HFM, and PME."
"This solution provides a more structured methodology for doing analysis than a tool like Excel. It creates a central database that keeps all information in one place."
"The scalability is good."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"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."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"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."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"I would like to see more integrations with third-party vendors such as BigSense and SAP. I'm looking forward to seeing more interface-related content."
"There can be an improvement in many regards with the dimensions, the metadata, the interfaces, as well as the integration."
"Oracle Hyperion generally it's quite a complex architecture that is hard to maintain."
"It is challenging to do reporting on Oracle Hyperion if you're not an expert."
"I found the initial setup to be complex."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"What I like is to have everything on one platform and not in different modules like Oracle Hyperion."
"Configuration is a little complex, it's not very easy. The solution is integrated with Essbase and there are not many users of the Essbase database. If they can provide different modules for each subject area, like supply chain, for inventory forecasting or for order management forecasting, it would make each subject area easier to manage."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"We would like a report model, because currently there is no schema that we can create in the tool."
