Ayasdi Core vs. IBM Cognos Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ayasdi Core
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Ayasdi Core is a business intelligence software offering from Ayasdi.N/A
IBM Cognos Analytics
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
On Demand - Standard
USD 10.00
per month per user
On Demand - Premium
USD 42.40
per month per user
On Demand - Standard
USD 10.60
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
Features
Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
7.3
1 Ratings
11% below category average
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.5
111 Ratings
9% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports9.01 Ratings7.5101 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.01 Ratings7.8109 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings7.2105 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
7.0
1 Ratings
14% below category average
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.6
113 Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.01 Ratings7.5110 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.01 Ratings7.5112 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.01 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.01 Ratings7.9108 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
7.6
1 Ratings
8% below category average
IBM Cognos Analytics
8.0
112 Ratings
3% below category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings8.327 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.01 Ratings7.6106 Ratings
Report Versioning7.01 Ratings8.626 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.01 Ratings7.6109 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.01 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
7.3
1 Ratings
8% below category average
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.4
103 Ratings
7% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings7.798 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings7.994 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.01 Ratings7.191 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.129 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
7.5
1 Ratings
13% below category average
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.9
108 Ratings
8% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.01 Ratings8.0105 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.01 Ratings8.1104 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.01 Ratings7.1103 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.01 Ratings8.087 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.133 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
-
Ratings
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.1
89 Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.583 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.273 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.179 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Ayasdi Core
-
Ratings
IBM Cognos Analytics
7.6
70 Ratings
2% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.467 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.065 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.911 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
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User Ratings
Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(136 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(29 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(9 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.5
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.8
(5 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Ayasdi CoreIBM Cognos Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Ayasdi
Well suited: 1. If data set is not yet well organized. 2. Hypothesis is not yet established. 3. Need to visually explore to find patterns of data (often when analysts have no good understanding of data) 4. When [you need] to analyze events with a timeframe (specifically a sequence of events as a transaction) Less appropriate 1. If a data set is very large, such as Hadoop data, it becomes hard to manage data pipeline and process to feed the data into Ayasdi. To be feed into Ayasdi, data should be aggregated or organized to some level.
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IBM
I use predictive analytics techniques, which can help me predict my future sales based on collected data, giving me insight into my market's trends.This market data can be analyzed, giving me the opportunity to gain in-depth insight into my market's competition and positioning it competitively, aided by developing strategies to improve my marketing approach.
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Pros
Ayasdi
  • Ayasdi Core provides an easy way to get some insight on data. Typically analytics may require having a model or hypothesis before starting to look into the data, but Ayasdi lets you just feed the data first then start seeing what the data looks like.
  • Ayasdi Core's topological network visualization is quite unique. It allows you to explore patterns and potential relations between multiple data elements. A user can also dynamically navigate data with different aspects on the web.
  • The Web version of Ayasdi is easy to use, stable, and fast. It hasn't crashed even when we feed it a lot of data sets, although it took time.
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IBM
  • We can make dozens of dispatchers all focusing on different types of workloads.
  • Friendly user interface, without the need for coding or complicated editing.
  • Highly functionality reporting tools.
  • We can easily create trigger when a certain threshold are met sending reports or alerts to needed parties.
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Cons
Ayasdi
  • Use of Python SDK is required to feed data into Ayasdi, but it lacks training materials or sample codes for a novice to get started.
  • Although Web UI of Ayasdi is looking good, often it freezes when the user runs an analysis. It doesn't crash but the web page needs to be refreshed to see the progress of analysis.
  • Algorithms provided by Ayasdi, such as metrics types, lens types need to be explained (what they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are). We had to Google or do research on our own to understand what they are.
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IBM
  • API integration is not upto the mark with very limited options.
  • Laptops get overheated when the tool is used from moderate to heavy use. Also, there is a lag in the tool times.
  • Licensing & Maintenance can go from cheap to expensive depending on the scope.
  • Lot of scope to improve the customer support & its not upto the industry standards.
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Likelihood to Renew
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
For an existing solution, renewing licenses does provide a good return on investment. Additionally, while rolling out scorecards and dashboards with little adhoc capabilities, to end users, cognos is very easily scalable. It also allows to create a solution that has a mix of OLAP and relational data-sources, which is a limitation with other tools. Synchronizing with existing security setup is easy too.
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Usability
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
We have a strong user base (3500 users) that are highly utilizing this tool. Basic users are able to consume content within the applied security model. We have a set of advanced users that really push the limits of Cognos with Report and Query Studio. These users have created a lot of personal content and stored it in 'My Reports'. Users enjoy this flexibility.
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Reliability and Availability
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
Reports can typically be viewed through any browser that can access the server, so the availability is ultimately up to what the company utilizing it is comfortable with allowing, though report development tends to be more picky about browsers and settings as mentioned above. It also has an optional iPad app and general mobile browsing support, but dashboards lack the mobile compatibility. What keeps it from getting a higher score is the desktop tools that are vital to the development process. The compatibility with only Windows when the server has a wide range of compatibility can be a real sore point for a company that outfits its employees exclusively with Mac or Linux machines. Of course, if they are planning on outsourcing the development anyways, it's a rather moot point
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Performance
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
Overall no major complaints but it doesn't handle DMR (Dimensionally Modeled for Relational) very well. DMR modelling is a capability that IBM Cognos Framework Manager provides allowing you to specify dimensional information for relational metadata and allows for OLAP-style queries. However, the capability is not very efficient and, for example, if I'm using only 2 columns on a 20-column model, the software is not smart enough to exclude 18 columns and the query side gets progressively larger and larger until it's effectively unusable.
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Support Rating
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
Why is their web application not working as fast as you think it should? They never know, and it is always a a bunch of shots in the dark to find out. Trying to download software from them is like trying to find a book at the library before computers were invented.
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In-Person Training
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
Onsite training provided by IBM Cognos was effective and as expected. They did not perform training with our data which was a bit difficult for our end-users.
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Online Training
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
The online courses they offer are thorough and presented in such a way that someone who isn't already familiar with the general design methodologies used in this field will be capable of making a good design. The training environments are provided as a fully self contained virtual machine with everything needed already to create the environments. We've had some persisting issues with the environments becoming unavailable, but support has been responsive when these issues arise and straightening them out for us
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Implementation Rating
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
Make sure that any custom tables that you have, are built into your metadata packages. You can still access them via SQL queries in Cognos, but it is much easier to have them as a part of the available metadata packages.
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Alternatives Considered
Ayasdi
We had a working group that has been using R studio for the general purpose of statistical analysis in our organization. Although it is a great tool that provides enriched function sets, it is time-consuming for our clinical analysts to learn the tool to see the first result. R is somewhat of a developer-oriented/friendly tool. Ayasdi is friendly to a domain analyst or end users. Plus, support and consulting from Ayasdi were excellent so that we could get knowledge from them immediately whenever we needed.
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IBM
My company selected IBM Congos Analytics because of its advanced features and data representation for data analysis. Its row and column features are very effective for creating dashboards and reports to visualize data. It's chart representation and view format are very attractive and useful for representation.
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Scalability
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
The Cognos architecture is well suited for scalability. However, the architecture must be designed with scalability in mind from day one of the implementation. We recently upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2.1 and took the opportunity to revamp our architecture. It is now poised for future growth and scalability.
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Return on Investment
Ayasdi
No answers on this topic
IBM
  • Positive: It provides collaboration and sharing of knowledge with other users which provides centralized access to data and reports.
  • Positive: It helps organization to save time and be efficient as it provides self service analytics and automated workflows.
  • Positive: With its powerful analytics and reporting capabilities it enables user to explore and analyze their data, identify the trends and make decisions based on those insights.
  • Negative: Implementing Cognos Analytics will take investments on licensing cost, training and infrastructure.
  • Negative: As it provides many features and capabilities, it is an issue with organization having limited IT support configure and maintain the platform.
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ScreenShots

IBM Cognos Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of a natural language query, used in IBM Cognos Analytics to get AI-powered insights from data.Screenshot of AI-generated insights and forecasts that can be added with just a click of a button.Screenshot of a dashboard that can be generated automatically using IBM Cognos Analytics by uploading or selecting data.Screenshot of an AI-generated dashboard from a spreadsheet that was just uploaded. This offers a great starting point for the creative process.Screenshot of where to import data to IBM Cognos Analytics from CSV files and spreadsheets. Users can connect to cloud or on-premises data sources, including SQL databases, Google BigQuery, Amazon, and Redshift.Screenshot of a sample operational dashboard of a coffee shop created using IBM Cognos Analytics.