Workday Adaptive Planning vs IBM Cognos Analytics: Which is a better fit?

I love the adaptability and ability to gain access to various information. It has allowed much greater access to analyzing our Key Performance Indicators.

Inability to run reporting on one entity (only runs in consolidation). Inability to modify reports without creating a new report.

The ability to save the data and propagate it throughout the system was a plus. Additionally, the dimensions in reports and seeing differences between the dimensions were very useful.

The only thing maybe due to my lack of knowledge, you would have to create the pie/column charts for them to show in different dashboards, otherwise they interfere with each other.

Brad B

Sr. Director, Finance

In addition to the feature set, the customer support is outstanding. Very responsive to questions and highly knowledgeable on a variety of topics.

However, there are sometimes glitches so that's annoying.

Ease of use is my favorite thing about the software. It is super easy to use and training new employees is a breeze.

Setting up Adaptive Insights is a crucial, timely, and difficult process. However, the time you put into building your instance initially saves time and pays dividends in the future.

Overall its good and it is one of the initiators in the reporting market. We are still using it and find it quite useful to fulfill our client requirements.

The space usage for this software is to high. The IBM Windows services is slow on startup and service errors can be very difficult to diagnose due to bad log structure or description.

Sally April S

Information Technology Engineer

It has a nice user interface, with multiple customization options, attractive panels and excellent performance.

I struggle with all the information and fields and calculations.

Capabilities of this software is far reaching and varied and it depends on the organisation ability to use it to their advantage.

Not easy to create a report, some reports will stop working for no reason, they just will spin and not generate. Difficult to change the layout and information.

I would definitely recommend this to people who want to create effective dashboards and reports. It has user friendly interface.

Enterprise offerings are a bit pricey. For SMBs it can be a difficult conversation to justify the costs.