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."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"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."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"The solution is quite costly."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"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, Oracle Hyperion and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Oracle OBIEE. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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