We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Workday Prism Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"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."
"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."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"It is not a very scalable product."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 26th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. 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 Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Databricks and Oracle Essbase.
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