We performed a comparison between Domo 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."It has the best GUI. And it already has an ETL tool embedded in it..."
"The best feature of Domo is that it's completely on the cloud. I also like that you can handle data end-to-end without having to depend on multiple tools. Another specific feature I like the most about Domo is Magic ETL because, through it, you can do all your expression, transformation, and loading activities very smoothly. The tool also follows the lineage concept, so you can understand what kind of transformations took place on a particular data set. You can find end-to-end data from the source until it has become the final output or the final data set. Whatever happened to a particular data set, you can understand it through the Domo lineage, and that isn't possible in most of the tools available in the market, but in Domo, that's available. The tool is also solid and because it's on the cloud, it uses multiple data engineering in the backend and multiple algorithms in the back, behind the scenes, resulting in a great performance. For example, if an end user such as the CEO or COO opens a report or the dashboard and it takes more than ten seconds, the end user won't be interested in looking at that report or dashboard, but Domo enables better performance and there's usually no performance issues from that tool."
"The dashboard is the most valuable feature and allows for customization to create and share reports."
"The best thing is that the data storage is pretty much free. I can store as much data as I want, from different sources."
"All our client SLAs and daily and weekly dashboards are tracked on Domo."
"We've worked with all the features of Domo. Among the most important are Pivot and Sumo Cards. We can use drill-down from the top-most level with a click, generating charts."
"With ETL transformations in SQL lists, you often write a lot of queries. You have to build a bunch of code for the data. With Domo, one of the pieces we have is Magic ETL. In Magic ETL, you don't need to write code. You don't need to be a specialist in SQL or any database query language."
"The data certification feature, where the admin user can put a certified stamp on a data source so that other users can know that that is the correct and accurate data flow or data source to use, is a good feature."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"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."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"There's a learning curve before you can get used to the solution."
"One of the improvements that could be made is related to improved storage options."
"If Domo had a Copilot feature, you could interact with the graphs and talk to the graphs and tables."
"It is expensive."
"When you're exporting a graph out of Domo — suppose it is in the form of a donut chart or it is in form of a stack — the data comes out in tabular format, not as a graph. When exporting the data, I would like them to create a tab for graphs and another tab with the data in tabular format."
"The forecasting feature, the regression features, and the Python libraries could all be improved. They're all in beta."
"Domo or any other BI tool has room for improvement, in particular, in the calculations. User-guided material isn't available for calculations. The tool, though user-friendly, could also be more customizable, especially when you're building a dashboard. Data integration could also be improved in Domo because even if the tool connects to multiple data sources, some hiccups still arise and need to be addressed."
"If your ETL runs more than 24 hours, it always fails because we are logging a lot of historical data, and there is a restriction on the amount of data (in rows) that you can run. The technical support has not found a solution for this yet."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"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."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
Domo is ranked 11th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Domo is rated 7.8, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Domo writes "Robust, powerful, and easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Domo is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Looker and Sisense, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. See our Domo vs. IBM Cognos report.
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