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."A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"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."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"The pricing could be lower because it is costly."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
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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