D3.js vs IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

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Score 8 out of 10

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 491 reviews and ratings

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Feature Set Ratings

BI Standard Reporting

D3.js

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.4

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

84%

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

Pixel Perfect reports

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

58 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

63 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

62 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

D3.js

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.6

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

86%

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

Drill-down analysis

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

65 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

66 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

40 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

N/A

0 Ratings

8.9

89%

64 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

D3.js

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.7

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

87%

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson ranks higher in 5/5 features

Publish to Web

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

26 Ratings

Publish to PDF

N/A

0 Ratings

9.2

92%

62 Ratings

Report Versioning

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

25 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

N/A

0 Ratings

9.2

92%

65 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

12 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

D3.js

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%

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

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

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

54 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

53 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

49 Ratings

Access Control and Security

D3.js

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.9

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

89%

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

Multi-User Support (named login)

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

61 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

60 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

60 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

43 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

D3.js

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

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

D3.js

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

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

D3.js is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating

D3.js

89%

3 Ratings

8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%

89 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%

24 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%

7 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

86%

8 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

90%

10 Ratings

D3.js

80%

2 Ratings

10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%

15 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

87%

4 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

80%

4 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

70%

14 Ratings

D3.js

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

100%

2 Ratings

Pros

It provides multiple ways of visualizing data easily.
It is fast and light on system resources. It is built with JavaScript and visualizations can be easily hosted on the web across browsers.
It has a huge community backing it so it is easy to find people to help with whatever you're doing.

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Firaz Peer

Fellow

Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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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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Paul Mendelson

Product Manager

PMsquareInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Hard to code, not a kids play toy.
No tutorial from official documentation.
Requires web development experience.

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Sanyam Jain

Freelancer in RPA

Self employedInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

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D3.js Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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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

per month per user

Additional Pricing Details

30-day free trial available.

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Sachin Karkun

Technical Lead

MindCraft Software Pvt. Ltd.Automotive, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Robert Goodman

Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown University5001-10,000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Gerrit Goewey

Senior Analytics Consultant

Datamensional, LLC1-10 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Meghdeep Raval, PMP

Manager, Data Architecture

Hess CorporationOil & Energy

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Support Rating

D3.js 8.0

Based on 2 answers

Support can be improved by providing more educational videos.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Jonathan Kyrlach

Business Intelligence Architect

Everything But The HouseConsumer Goods, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Robert Goodman

Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown University5001-10,000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Gerrit Goewey

Senior Analytics Consultant

Datamensional, LLC1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Toni McKee

HR Systems Analyst II

First Horizon Corp.Banking, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Protoviz does not require as much knowledge of programming to build visualizations as with D3.js or Google Charts. Highcharts or AnyChart are other alternatives that are more specific to building charts only

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Firaz Peer

Fellow

Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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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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Corey Mendelsohn

President

NewIntelligence Inc.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Robert Goodman

Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown University5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Rapid Development using templates helps faster delivery of the project.
Documentation requires a lot of time to study.
D3 creates high-quality visual effects which can be used over large screens.

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Sanyam Jain

Freelancer in RPA

Self employedInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Nicholas Maeda

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

SafetyCultureComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Likelihood to Recommend

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Pros

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Cons

D3.js

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price