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."Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"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."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"We've made a few enhancements to our Enterprise Manager system to allow self-reporting to grow. We see that as a very useful system. It's been incredibly beneficial in diagnosing production performance issues, diagnosing what reports are running slowly, where the SQL could be optimized, opportunities or metrics where we see long-time running performance. Enterprise Manager has been absolutely vital in giving us some of the insights about our system."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"It could have more options for themes."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"I would like to see more integration."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
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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