We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Teradata Vantage 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 has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"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."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"I like writing preformance queries for preprocessing on AWS Cloud."
"It is quick, secure, and has less hassles because we don't have to involve our networking team, infrastructure, etc. It is very easy to deploy and make market ready."
"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."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"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."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"I would like more security and speed."
"I would like more security and speed."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Teradata Vantage is ranked 30th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Teradata Vantage 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 Teradata Vantage writes "It helps us with connectivity and making sure the data is secure". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Teradata Vantage is most compared with Teradata Data Lab, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Microsoft Power BI.
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