We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"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."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"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."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"A great feature of the solution is its stability."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"For me, it makes the difference is in terms of our users being able to take advantage of a product which allows you to get access to data, reports, make decisions quickly, and have better insights regarding operations."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The solution's initial setup was straightforward."
"The dashboard and analysis are the most valuable features of this solution."
"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."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"When a large number of queries are running at the same time, the report fails."
"In the on-premises version, the feature for connecting and selecting the data between the databases looks a bit cumbersome, but I am not sure. The person who is using it takes a lot of time to design a data warehouse. When I ask him why is it taking this long, I get a response that this is something that he has to design, and there are different tools that are available. He has to write the ETL and design the warehouse according to the customer's requirement, which takes a lot of time. Its visualization should be enhanced, and there should be a feature where you can easily create your custom data warehouse."
"Oracle OBIEE could improve the visualizations, such as diagrams, charts, and graphical user interface. Other tools on the market have better graphical visualizations this Oracle OBIEE."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in Reporting with 154 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle Hyperion and Amazon QuickSight, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our IBM Cognos vs. Oracle OBIEE report.
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