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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Charts

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.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

    Pricing
    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    On Demand - Standard
    USD 11.25
    per month per user
    On Demand - Premium
    USD 44.90
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.6
    50 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    138 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.144 Ratings7.6129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.048 Ratings8.0136 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.843 Ratings7.5131 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    9.3
    51 Ratings
    15% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.9
    138 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.046 Ratings7.4136 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities10.051 Ratings8.3139 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.537 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.645 Ratings8.6133 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    9% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    136 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Publish to Web9.648 Ratings9.836 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.645 Ratings8.2132 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.642 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.736 Ratings8.2134 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.830 Ratings9.918 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    7.7
    50 Ratings
    4% below category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    124 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.049 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.047 Ratings8.0114 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.040 Ratings6.7110 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.947 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.8
    44 Ratings
    4% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    130 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.943 Ratings7.5129 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.838 Ratings7.5127 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.840 Ratings7.4127 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.831 Ratings8.6111 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.257 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.2
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.3
    109 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.046 Ratings6.8104 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.629 Ratings6.390 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.044 Ratings6.696 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Google Charts and IBM Cognos Analytics
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.4
    40 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    87 Ratings
    17% above category average
    REST API8.931 Ratings7.683 Ratings
    Javascript API10.039 Ratings7.779 Ratings
    iFrames8.825 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Java API8.925 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)5.028 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.827 Ratings9.99 Ratings
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    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (61 ratings)
    8.0
    (158 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (33 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (32 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.4
    (22 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google ChartsIBM Cognos Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    We can easily recommend Google Charts to any company that needs a way to visually represent their data. Another great thing about Google Charts is that it is free to use and does not require any membership fees. Although it requires a skilled used to be able to use the charts, the results are great and can be beneficial to any company who is looking to make better decisions.
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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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    Pros
    Google
    • they're free with Google suite and they have backing in terms of powerful Google apps which can be plugged in to perform multiple actions like using Google sheets to import raw data into Google Charts
    • they're the most simple app to use when it comes to creating charts and visual dashboards
    • ease of customization
    • ease of using custom APIs from developers side to help make any types of charts and dashboards you want
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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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    Cons
    Google
    • I would like a couple more introductory videos or a live chat option for when you run into an issue. I think this is a Google-wide problem, not only linked to Google Charts.
    • I have run into some issues with the Dynamic Data but also admittedly could potentially dive in deeper and investigate.
    • It would be great if Google Charts made it possible to integrate Google Chat into the platform.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Google Charts is a good product. It's widely supported with deep documentation and a large community. But for me, it wasn't customizable enough. When we started with simple charts, it was great, but as we got deeper and more complex, our needs outgrew the library. If I was going forward, I would choose a more barebones library with more freedom and extensibility.
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    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
    Google
    Google Charts is about as easy to use as the rest of their applications. The UI is very well thought out, allowing you to add what you need, and customize it to your exact liking. The default theme is actually really nice, which helps as most of the time, customizing is not needed.
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    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
    Google
    Google charts is always available and provides fast output.
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    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
    Google
    Connectivity is occasionally very slow.
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    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
    Google
    As a free tool with massively powerful, infinitely customisable charts that can be dynamically updated - Google Charts is my favourite data visualisation tool. However, my hatred of JavaScript does jade my view on it. This is the price of the tool though, and I'm glad it's available for me.
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    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
    Google
    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
    Google
    The online training was solely done through self training on google's guide to charts.
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    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
    Google
    Easy to implement
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    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
    Google
    Google Charts stacks up better since it is free and does not have the constant pressure for cost overruns, add-ons, annual maintenance and implementation services. The speed of using Google Charts is quick, saving users potentially weeks in getting up and going. For the readers of websites with limited resources, the application shows up nicely is look and feel with charts. Great way of showing data visually.
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    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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    Scalability
    Google
    Google Charts is essential for quick, easy, reporting. There are opportunities for advanced features.
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    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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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • teams were easily able to create charts and find out progress on our learning courses and thus take actionable insights to their managers, professors
    • students could also know their progress on various courses from one single view, same for instructors in terms of imparting education
    • sales team could learn which kind of courses sold more to focus more on those areas
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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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