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."This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"Provides us charts and graphs for reporting."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"It is very stable."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"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 could have more options for themes."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
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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