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Ayasdi Core vs IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Ayasdi Core
7 Ratings
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
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Ayasdi Core

7 Ratings
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Score 7 out of 100

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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

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Score 8.3 out of 100

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Feature Set Ratings

  • IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 5 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security

BI Standard Reporting

7.3

Ayasdi Core

73%
8.4

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

84%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 2/3 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

9.0
90%
1 Rating
8.3
83%
58 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.6
86%
63 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

6.0
60%
1 Rating
8.3
83%
62 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

7.0

Ayasdi Core

70%
8.6

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

86%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/4 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/4 features

Drill-down analysis

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.8
88%
65 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

6.0
60%
1 Rating
8.7
87%
66 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

8.0
80%
1 Rating
8.3
83%
40 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.9
89%
64 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

7.6

Ayasdi Core

76%
8.7

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

87%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/5 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/5 features

Publish to Web

9.0
90%
1 Rating
8.3
83%
26 Ratings

Publish to PDF

8.0
80%
1 Rating
9.2
92%
62 Ratings

Report Versioning

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.6
86%
25 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

7.0
70%
1 Rating
9.2
92%
65 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.1
81%
12 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

7.3

Ayasdi Core

73%
8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 2/3 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

10.0
100%
1 Rating
8.3
83%
54 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.0
70%
1 Rating
7.9
79%
53 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

5.0
50%
1 Rating
7.7
77%
49 Ratings

Access Control and Security

7.5

Ayasdi Core

75%
8.9

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

89%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/4 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 4/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0
80%
1 Rating
9.0
90%
61 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

7.0
70%
1 Rating
8.8
88%
60 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

7.0
70%
1 Rating
9.0
90%
60 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

8.0
80%
1 Rating
8.6
86%
43 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Ayasdi Core

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.2

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

72%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 3/3 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
78%
45 Ratings

Mobile Application

N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
40 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A
0 Ratings
7.6
76%
44 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Ayasdi Core

Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.8

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

78%
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 6/6 features
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 6/6 features

REST API

N/A
0 Ratings
8.4
84%
31 Ratings

Javascript API

N/A
0 Ratings
8.4
84%
29 Ratings

iFrames

N/A
0 Ratings
8.3
83%
9 Ratings

Java API

N/A
0 Ratings
6.9
69%
11 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A
0 Ratings
7.1
71%
10 Ratings

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A
0 Ratings
7.7
77%
7 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

7.0

Ayasdi Core

70%
1 Rating
8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%
89 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%
24 Ratings

Usability

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%
7 Ratings

Availability

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

86%
8 Ratings

Performance

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

90%
10 Ratings

Support Rating

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%
15 Ratings

In-Person Training

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
8.7

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

87%
4 Ratings

Online Training

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%
4 Ratings

Implementation Rating

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
7.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

70%
14 Ratings

Product Scalability

Ayasdi Core

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%
2 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Ayasdi Core

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 appropriate1. 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 Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics is a good way to streamline the deployment of your AI models. I would recommend taking up the Cognos analytics training and certification for you to be able to navigate the studio well. It covers all aspects comprehensively and you'll be better off if you are already knowledgeable in PostgreSQL.

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Pros

Ayasdi Core

  • 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 Cognos Analytics with Watson

  • Pixel perfect reports. If a client can provide a pixel-perfect mockup, I can make the report indistinguishable from the mockup.
  • Data security. It doesn't matter who the user is; when they log in and run a report, they will only see the data they are permitted to see.
  • Performant reports on large data. Many tools have issues running on tables containing only a few million rows. Cognos can consistently run reports on multi-billion row tables without issue.
  • Embedding reports in third-party tools. With Cognos Mashup Services, it is possible to build a report in IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson and call it programmatically. Need straight HTML? No problem. JSON? Atom? All good.

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Cons

Ayasdi Core

  • 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 Cognos Analytics with Watson

  • OLAP-cubes MUST IMMEDIATELY be upgraded to 64-bit-technology (if not, we are lost as Cognos/IBM-customer).
  • Easier integration of complex authorisation systems (concepts) into cubes (vertical as well as horizontal authorisation).
  • Much more statistics-functionality in cubes! (IBM bought SPSS 10 years ago!! where is the benefit of Cognos-users!!)!!!

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Pricing Details

Ayasdi Core

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Ayasdi Core Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Starting Price

$10 per month per user

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson Editions & Modules

Edition
On Demand - Premium$40.001
On Demand - Standard$10.001
  1. per month per user
Additional Pricing Details
30-day free trial available.

Likelihood to Renew

Ayasdi Core

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 10.0
Based on 24 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 8.0
Based on 7 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 8.6
Based on 8 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 9.0
Based on 10 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 10.0
Based on 15 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 8.7
Based on 4 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 8.0
Based on 4 answers
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 Core

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 7.0
Based on 14 answers
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 Core

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 Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM has the best in class and the major reason customers select this tool is the ease of use and the company that stands behind the product. The reputation of the software is key and the fact that IBM has one of the best support organizations around truly makes it stand apart from all of the others.

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Scalability

Ayasdi Core

No score
No answers yet
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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 10.0
Based on 2 answers
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 Core

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IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

  • IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson provides capabilities such as data analysis and reporting that work seamlessly for individuals, departments, and workgroups in all organizations and businesses.
  • Customizable and secure data exploration through NLP.
  • I can easily connect data analysis with ad-hoc reports.

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