We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"It is a stable product."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"They could improve the speed."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The solution is quite costly."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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