G2 Vendor Directory

IBM Cognos Analytics vs. Looker

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIBM Cognos Analytics

by IBM

Looker

by Google

Overall rating4.14.4
Review count5111,653
Ease of use7.98.5
Ease of setup7.78.5
Quality of support7.98.8
Meets requirements8.58.9
NPS36.42533958.653241
Small Business16.8%19.6%
Mid-Market26.1%60.3%
Enterprise57.1%20.1%
Total page views1,6852,894
Total LLM citations6,70414,147

IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics is a business intelligence and analytics solution that uses agentic AI to help teams transform trusted data into actionable insights, build governed analytical applications, and make better decisions. Teams can explore data, monitor KPIs, analyze performance, forecast trends, and share insights across the business. The solution is built for business leaders, analysts, report authors, IT teams, and data governance teams that need governed reporting, self-service analytics, data modeling, and flexible deployment options.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Report Generation
  • Analytics
  • Data Visualization
  • Dashboard Management
  • Dashboard Customization

Looker

Looker, Google Cloud’s business intelligence platform, enables you to chat with your data. Organizations turn to Looker for self-service and governed BI, to build custom applications with trusted metrics, or to bring Looker modeling to their existing environment. The result is improved data engineering efficiency and true business transformation.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Insights
  • Easy Integrations
  • Integrations
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics