We performed a comparison between CCH Tagetik and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Anaplan, Oracle, Jedox and others in Business Performance Management."I've primarily worked with CCH Tagetik as a consultant, handling implementations and not providing day-to-day user support. I initially appreciated the unified platform, the Ownership Structure Register, which benefits certain entities. The workflow feature is great, but it can become overly detailed and lacks clear guidance on design. The solution is good in terms of storage."
"I appreciate its user-friendliness, especially for business users who may not be very tech-savvy."
"The most valuable feature of CCH Tagetik is form creation."
"Has an APM, which deals with the details of data and has calculation functions included."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The tool's major drawback is the ETL process, which is not up to par with other solutions."
"We faced difficulties while uploading data."
"There is room for improvement, especially on the settings side of the solution."
"Analytics function is weak. Other products have sum(irate) function and forecasting help function, but Tagetik does not have this clarity."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"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."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
CCH Tagetik is ranked 13th in Business Performance Management with 6 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. CCH Tagetik is rated 7.6, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CCH Tagetik writes "User-friendly performance management with intuitive approach". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". CCH Tagetik is most compared with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, Oracle HFM, Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform.
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