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."
"It is a stable product."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"It is always nice to have one solution in a single platform. You can do pretty much everything, instead of having to get a little bit here or a little bit there."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"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."
"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."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"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."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
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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