We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"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."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"All the necessary information is available to everyone in real time."
"Qlik Sense is much more user-friendly and easier to read then QlikView."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies."
"Leveraging and reusability of already existing QlikView assets and knowledge."
"Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap."
"It could have more options for themes."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"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."
"I would like to see Qlik add more DevOps functionality to their product. Currently, we have to turn to 3rd party products to handle things like Source Control, Code Deployment through environments, etc."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness."
"Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great. A basic printing function would also be good. Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
"Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement."
"I would like to more easily themed environments."
"It's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to refresh sometimes."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Oracle Hyperion and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our IBM Cognos vs. Qlik Sense report.
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