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."The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"It is a stable product."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"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."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"It definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"I did not see any additional value of providing one button for installation on the whole platform if it was going to be installed for different servers. You would have to make customization every time. There was no additional value in an installer."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"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."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
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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