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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASweetspot Marketing Intelligence, from ClickDimensions (acquired March 2019) is a marketing analytics platform that combines report automation and data governance with marketing campaign and channel analytics. It is available via a browser or any mobile device. The solution also is used to visualize, present, distribute, and deliver reports, boasting an extensive visualization library, storytelling functionalities, and dashboard personalization to allow users to tell impactful stories branded…N/A

    IBM Cognos Analytics

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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.

    $11.25

    per month per user

    Roku OneView

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe OneView Ad Platform (formerly Dataxu, acquired by Roku October 2019) is a solution for marketers and content owners to, according to the vendor, reach more cord cutters and measure performance using the largest TV identity dataset, where advertisers can manage their entire campaigns – including OTT, linear TV, omnichannel, and more – all in one place.N/A
    Pricing
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensionsIBM Cognos AnalyticsRoku OneView
    Editions & Modules
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    On Demand - Standard
    USD 11.25
    per month per user
    On Demand - Premium
    USD 44.90
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensionsIBM Cognos AnalyticsRoku OneView
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensionsIBM Cognos AnalyticsRoku OneView
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    138 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Roku OneView
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.6129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.0136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.5131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.9
    138 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Roku OneView
    -
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    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.4136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.3139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    136 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Roku OneView
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    Ratings
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.836 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.2132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.2134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    124 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Roku OneView
    -
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.9121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.7110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    130 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Roku OneView
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.5129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.5127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.4127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.6111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.4
    109 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Roku OneView
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.8104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.390 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.696 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions and IBM Cognos Analytics and Roku OneView
    Feature
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensions
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    Ratings
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    87 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Roku OneView
    -
    Ratings
    REST API00 Ratings7.683 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.779 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings9.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.99 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensionsIBM Cognos AnalyticsRoku OneView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (158 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.3
    (5 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Sweetspot, by ClickDimensionsIBM Cognos AnalyticsRoku OneView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ClickDimensions
    We use ClickDimensions to integrate the sales and operations team here. You're able to run your entire marketing operation in one place which streamlines the onboarding of new clients and new employees to use the software. It provides solid reports of your data all in one place which is incredibly helpful.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    For Transaction monitoring, we build reports for executive management, providing insights into the number of alerts, the types or categories of detection scenarios, the risk profile, and a snapshot of high- or urgent-priority cases to be reported to AUSTRAC. Congos helps to build the report by ingesting alert data exported from SAS datasets. It joins with other data from Teradata and Customer Hub (Oracle).
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    Roku, Inc.
    Dataxu is great for running multiple campaigns at the same time. It's reporting features are great as well as the exchanges it has to offer. For a company just wanting to run one campaign, I don't think it would be worth their time learning how to navigate Dataxu; however, for a company running to run multiple campaigns, Dataxu makes the process easier. Dataxu has great customer service representatives that provide superior training whenever needed.
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    Pros
    ClickDimensions
    • Integration with other software.
    • Connects departments.
    • Versatile
    • Easy to use.
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    IBM
    • Enterprise reporting - Create, customise, and run reports on sales trends, consumer sentiment, etc.
    • Dashboard creation and data exploration & analysis - Using drag and drop feature to create ad-hoc visualisation. Additionally, using AI powered natural language query feature for data analysis and dashboard input (formation of pie, bar, line charts). It's useful for no-technical person to put queries around the spreadsheet data to get quick answers.
    • Building insights for accurate decision making - Package reports with data backed insights for stakeholders in pdf, and Excel format to support business ad-hoc cases, forecasting and strategic recommendations on relevant asks.
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    Roku, Inc.
    • The platform's mobile serving capacity is great; spending is always consistent and the impression numbers are some of the highest we've seen. We can always depend on this method of ad serving to get us the results that we and our clients expect.
    • The intelligence and audience information (found under the Reports tab) is helpful when writing a "story" for the client; it assists us in determining future targeting strategies. Custom Queries are also available under the Reports tab and these are extremely helpful when we need to view specific details about the campaign.
    • The dashboard's spend-to-date graphic helps us to immediately recognize what campaigns are falling behind so that we may adjust the budgets accordingly.
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    Cons
    ClickDimensions
    • A bit clunky.
    • Formatting issues.
    • Settings
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    IBM
    • IBM Cognos Analytics enables customer data segmentation, which is essential for marketing, improving and streamlining purchasing behavior and preferences. This helps companies create more targeted and effective marketing campaigns.
    • Our clients Through data analysis, we can identify and observe trends in the behavior of other clients, allowing us to anticipate needs and adjust strategies to avoid consequences.
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    Roku, Inc.
    • Website blacklisting
    • Flagging problems. For example, if a campaign has been running a week and hasn't spent any of the budgets, there could be a setting enabling it from doing so. When you have multiple campaigns running, it's hard to track this.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    It is not in my jurisdiction to renew or end contracts with DataXu. I know that the high cost to maintain a contract with DataXu can be off-putting
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    Usability
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    At Haberfeld, we had our own customer service representative out of Boston. He provided superior and timely support for all of our questions and needs. He also ran test campaigns to show us what our potential impact could be before we put dollars towards anything. He even came all the way down to Nebraska to visit with us at one point. Whenever we needed something, he was quick to respond and provide appropriate resources and training.
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    In-Person Training
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    ClickDimensions
    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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    Roku, Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Power BI is stronger for quick ad-hoc analysis and dashboards, but IBM Cognos Analytics is better when consistency, precision, and mass distribution matter. Tableau is best for interactive analysis, while IBM Cognos Analytics is better for standardized, repeatable enterprise reporting. Sigma shines for customizable dashboards and drill-down analysis while IBM Cognos Analytics holds an edge in data discovery and visualization.
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    Roku, Inc.
    We work with multiple platforms, not solely DataXu. As of late, AdWords has proven more beneficial to us. AdWords is very user-friendly and they are easy to contact. If we need a question answered, we can simply hop onto a Google Chat and get the responses we need to move forward. DataXu is much harder to get in contact with and their Help Beta tab is not especially informative. If we need to serve impressions, DataXu is certainly the server to utilize
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    Scalability
    ClickDimensions
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    We rate IBM Cognos Analytics a 9 out of 10 for overall scalability. The platform handles large numbers of users, reports, and analytical workloads very reliably. We have experienced strong performance even in demanding enterprise environments with substantial data volumes. Its architecture provides sufficient flexibility to scale resources according to demand, making it well suited for large, business-critical deployments.
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    Roku, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ClickDimensions
    • Detailed progress reports.
    • Form distribution.
    • Email marketing
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    IBM
    • The platform can be pretty pricey.
    • Convoluted contracts and they fine you for any breach during audits.
    • Things are changed between releases without any warning and break.
    • It is second to none at being able to customize list and crosstab type reports.
    • You can easily set up a report to be emailed out every day and even have it export the report to a shared folder.
    • On-prem environments can be scaled up pretty much as much as you would like.
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    Roku, Inc.
    • Provided us with accurate and timely data to provide to clients.
    • Enabled us to streamline our process for running PPC ads for over 80 clients.
    • Allowed us to show our ads to households across multiple devices and relevant exchanges.
    Incentivized
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