We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Tableau, and TIBCO Jaspersoft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"It is a stable product."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"It's easy to use."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"A valuable feature of Tableau is that it is a useful tool for small setups. I shuffle between Tableau and MicroStrategy, so I use Tableau for personal purposes more than enterprise. I like the light version of Tableau for personal usage and doing some use cases on my own. When it comes to something small, I use Tableau for setups, rather than any other tool."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."
"The feature that I like most is the drag and drop capability."
"The growth time is the most valuable feature of TIBCO Jaspersoft."
"I give the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"The end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."
"It's easy to use and maintain."
"With the online view, it's easier to create Ad Hoc reports. It has inbuilt reports so we can easily get data from the system and customize the fields."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"There are not enough language options. It needs to be offered in more than just English."
"I have used Power BI as well as Tableau. There are a couple of interesting features that I like in Power BI, but they are not present in Tableau. For example, in Power BI, if I am looking at country-wise population, I can type and ask for the country that has the maximum population, and it will automatically give an answer and address that query. This kind of feature is not there in Tableau. Similarly, in Power BI, for integrating with the latest ML algorithms, we have decision trees and primarily multiple machine learning algorithms. The decision tree essentially visualizes the patterns in the data. We don't have such a feature in Tableau. If Tableau can integrate with the machine learning algorithms and help us to do visualizations, it would be a wonderful combination. Most of the people are going for Tableau primarily for visualization purposes. However, in the data science industry, users want to do model building as well as tell a story. As of now, Tableau is fulfilling the requirements for visualization purposes. If they can bring it up to a level where I can use it for machine learning purposes as well as for visualization, it would be very helpful. Many people who want to do data science don't want to write a code. Tableau is anyway a drag and drop tool, and if they can provide those options as well, it will be a powerful combination."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"TIBCO Jaspersoft would benefit from enabling you to run multiple reports in one file and incorporating more options related to multiple reports."
"A better focus should be put on self-service reporting."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for big data."
"Customization is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement."
"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."
"The upgrades are not easy."
"The reporting templates have room for improvement."
