We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight 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."I like that with Amazon QuickSight, you don't need to install an app to use its services. With other BI tools, you need to install the app, so Amazon QuickSight is better for me in this area."
"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Amazon QuickSight has introduced a new functionality called Q bar, which allows the user to do natural language queries and get additional insights using some built-in generative capabilities."
"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 has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"Right now, you can't use Amazon QuickSight on other cloud providers, so I'd like it to have availability on other cloud providers. This is an area for improvement in the product. What I'd like to see in Amazon QuickSight in the future is a distributed centralized system where I can manage all reports in one place, and for Amazon QuickSight to become reporting as a service."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"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."
"The solution's support could be better."
"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."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and QlikView, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and Qlik Sense. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. IBM Cognos report.
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