We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAP Analytics Cloud 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 most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"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."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It offers good backup capabilities."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"The ability to collaborate and plan together is great."
"The most valuable features are the analytical application and the user story."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"I have found that the feature to drag and drop widgets based on the data source, and import them into stories to be valuable. This way it helps the end user to create stories themselves."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"An area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is its planning feature because it's not that efficient when compared to BPC. Another area for improvement in the solution is the difficulty in building reports or dashboards, particularly if you don't have proper knowledge of the BI system. SAP Analytics Cloud technical support also needs improvement."
"SAP Analytics Cloud should improve the dashboard."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"Connection and integration with other applications have a lot of restrictions at the moment."
"Some of the standard visualizations, such as a speedometer or a goal chart, are not there and should be added."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and MicroStrategy, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAP Analytics Cloud report.
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