IBM Cognos Analytics vs Looker: Which is a better fit?

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.

I love the ability to visualize all of the data in one space. Dashboard creation is easy and so useful.

Can get a bit confusing and confining with more complex queries/analysis. Machine written sql can be annoying.

We use ours with Redshift and Aurora and they take most advantage of both systems. Their super awesome customer support - always available chat who are really good at what they are doing.

To be fair, if you have a terrible underlying data warehouse, then all Looker will do is expose that.

It’s a good option if you want to do dashboards connected to google sheets. Also a good alternative to PowerBi.

Unfortunately, their documentation could use some improving as often I find myself confused and unsure what to do with their docs.

Looker has been a great and useful tool for out business. Where we've found challenges is in the specific data dictionary and set-up, which internally was not well prepared prior to implementation.

I dislike how long it can take certain reports in Looker to load.