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."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."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"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."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"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."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"We leverage it, not only for reporting but for analytics and also for geospatial reporting."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"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."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"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."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 129 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, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud, 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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