We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy 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."When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"It is a stable product."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy 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 MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and IBM Planning Analytics, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our IBM Cognos vs. MicroStrategy report.
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