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."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"In the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. Now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"MicroStrategy's solution for mobile is very good."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"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."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
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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