We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Teradata Vantage 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."The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"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."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"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."
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"I like writing preformance queries for preprocessing on AWS Cloud."
"It is quick, secure, and has less hassles because we don't have to involve our networking team, infrastructure, etc. It is very easy to deploy and make market ready."
"It could have more options for themes."
"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."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"I would like more security and speed."
"I would like more security and speed."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Teradata Vantage is ranked 30th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Teradata Vantage is rated 8.0. 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 Teradata Vantage writes "It helps us with connectivity and making sure the data is secure". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas Teradata Vantage is most compared with Teradata Data Lab and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. See our IBM Cognos vs. Teradata Vantage report.
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