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SAS Augmented Analytics & Business Intelligence vs. IBM Cognos Analytics

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

MetricSAS Augmented Analytics & Business Intelligence

by SAS Institute

IBM Cognos Analytics

by IBM

Overall rating4.34.1
Review count70511
Ease of use8.17.9
Ease of setup7.37.7
Quality of support8.77.9
Meets requirements8.98.5
NPS51.47058836.425339
Small Business17.4%16.8%
Mid-Market23.2%26.1%
Enterprise59.4%57.1%
Total page views791,685
Total LLM citations1346,704

SAS Augmented Analytics & Business Intelligence

SAS offers an integrated, robust and flexible presentation layer for the full breadth of SAS Analytics capabilities

Pros

    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