We performed a comparison between Alteryx and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is the intelligence suite."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"Predictive models, which are easy to use, and help a lot with fast design and deployment."
"Its initial setup is easy."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"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."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"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."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Alteryx's predictive data models are pretty average and can be improved."
"Alteryx can improve in data science. They have to have more features and components in the data science aspect because they claim to be a data science tool. However, in order to be more competitive, they have to improve on their data science propositions. Thre are other solutions on the market, such as other players in the market, Data2Go or DataIQ, and Alteryx needs to catch up."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"It seems to me that it is not always user friendly."
"The interface could be improved."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. See our Alteryx vs. IBM Cognos report.
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