IBM Cognos Analytics Reports vs SAS Visual Analytics

Experience information like never before with IBM Cognos Analytics Reports. Access and interact with all of the rich reports you need to make the smartest business decisions, all on your mobile devices. Gain trusted insight through a rich and visual experience whether you are offline or online to ensure you remain productive wherever you are. Easily sync your IBM Cognos Analytics content through iTunes, from email attachments or directly from your Cognos Analytics server. With the IBM Cognos Analytics mobile reports app, you can easily sync reports between your Cognos server and your user’s mobile devices. Both Active Reports and standard Reports can be delivered automatically or on-demand to your users’ mobile devices. Features: - Built on Cognos’s industry-leading governance architecture. - Connected and disconnected experience - Receive push notifications when new report versions are available - All prompts and pop-ups are automatically converted to be touch-friendly - Schedule and deliver content to your mobile device - Browse your Cognos Analytics server and run new reports - Manage your bandwidth by selectively downloading content - Annotate and share your comments with your colleagues

SAS® Visual Analytics empowers decision makers with business reports and dashboards anywhere, anytime! SAS® Visual Analytics App, part of the SAS Visual Analytics product family, enables you to view and interact with reports that can contain a variety of charts, graphs, gauges, tables, and other report objects.   With easy-to-use multi-touch gestures, you can move through the application, filter and drill into data in the reports, and make decisions in the office, in meetings, or out on the road. Business users can interactively explore vast amounts of data and collaborate with others via the SAS Visual Analytics App. When reports and data change, the app updates the view ensuring users are always up to date.   Requirements: A supported version of SAS Visual Analytics: •SAS Visual Analytics on SAS® Viya® •SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 (SAS® 9.5)   SAS Visual Analytics server backend versions 8.5, 8.4, 8.3, and 7.5.   Highlights: • Anywhere you go. You can work with reports whether you are connected or not. • Interactive reports, dashboards and graphs. A variety of reports, dashboards, graphs, and gauges provide the customization and flexibility you need to meet your wide range of business demands. • Multiple gestures. You can use familiar gestures, including pinch, zoom, tap, and multi-touch. • Fast. Just as you’d expect – the application provides great response times and a fantastic experience while you work with your reports. • Secure. Data access is based on user role and access permissions. • Access to big data. You have the ability to access big data from SAS Visual Analytics. Release 7.5 is powered by SAS® LASR(TM) Analytic Server. Release 8.3 and later, on SAS Viya, are powered by SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS).   License Agreement:   Your use of this application indicates your acceptance of the terms of the SAS Institute Inc. License Agreement for SAS® Visual Analytics App Software, linked to below. If you do not agree with these terms, you are not authorized to use the application.