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 product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"The architecture is very solid."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"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."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
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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