We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Sisense 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."
"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."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"Visually displaying data."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our IBM Cognos vs. Sisense report.
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