We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and SAS Visual Analytics 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 solution's initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"It's relatively simple to create basic dashboards and reports."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"The technical support services are good."
"It integrates well with SAS, making it simple and quick for developers."
"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."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"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."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"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."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 8th in Data Visualization with 35 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while SAS Visual Analytics 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 SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Amazon SageMaker. See our IBM Cognos vs. SAS Visual Analytics report.
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