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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cognos Analytics

    Score6.8 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.

    $10

    per month per user

    Logi Symphony

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ALogi Symphony is a business intelligence and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting, and visual data analytics. It can be integrated into users’ existing business applications and its visualization and reporting tools can be customized.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsLogi Symphony
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsLogi Symphony
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    IBM Cognos AnalyticsLogi Symphony
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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is the Powerful bi tool with many features to quickly build up reports, dashboard etc. You can customize everything and it is easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is easy to develop and re-visualize the reports and the license is too less expensive compared to other tools which are overpriced.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony

    I have used dozens of BI tools, a ew for many years like IBM Cognos and other for several months POCs like microstrategy, Panorama, Tableau etc...

    For our industry and our daily use Dundas BI wins since it is very flexible and can bring us the greater value we can achieve from a …

    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is a very good tool for dashboard and scorecard design. It looks great. However, it requires a lot of work regarding renaming components, deploying between different environments, and scripting customized functionalities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is much more powerful to build more interactive and feature rich dashboards. Most of the above are great at ad hoc analysis but not for providing a full feature and rich guided dashboard experience. Dundas BI is great to build a suite of dashboards and easy to deploy …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    QLIK, Tableau, Cognos, BIRST, MicroStrategy, PowerBI from Microsoft, OBIEE and BO.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas BI has a more comprehensive user interface allowing for better design flexibility and rapid deployment.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsLogi Symphony
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.0
    106 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    8.4
    51 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.996 Ratings8.443 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.3104 Ratings8.651 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.0101 Ratings8.139 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    108 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    8.1
    51 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.3106 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.1107 Ratings8.250 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.874 Ratings7.633 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.4103 Ratings8.645 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    107 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    7.9
    49 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.327 Ratings8.442 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.1101 Ratings7.845 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.626 Ratings7.838 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.0104 Ratings8.337 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.112 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.7
    98 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.993 Ratings8.148 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.189 Ratings7.941 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.486 Ratings7.432 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    103 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    8.2
    49 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.0100 Ratings8.648 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.899 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.199 Ratings8.246 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.428 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.882 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.6
    84 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    8.2
    45 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.678 Ratings8.344 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.968 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.074 Ratings8.140 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Logi Symphony
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    65 Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    REST API7.562 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Javascript API8.660 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    iFrames8.39 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Java API6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.110 Ratings7.76 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.87 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsLogi Symphony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (131 ratings)
    8.3
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (27 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.2
    (45 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    8.2
    (46 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)