We performed a comparison between Board and IBM Cognos 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."BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."
"All the reports are prepared automatically."
"It is very easy to use. It has got what they call a toolkit, which is a no-code development environment. You can develop a whole solution with it because it is a complete platform. There is a lot of online material that can be used as a reference. You can help yourself while developing a solution. There are some prebuilt applications in the platform environment. You can very easily customize and integrate these applications. It also has flexible scaling of machine resources, which is really great."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"All staff can now see their relevant scorecards online."
"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"I would like an eLearning platform for BOARD."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"If we could upload other data, e.g., pivot tables which can be done in BOARD already, that we have pre-existing and have that data distribute to more complex spreadsheets, I would like that going forward."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"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."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"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."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"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."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion. See our Board vs. IBM Cognos report.
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