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."It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"We are using mobile analytics, and it is amazing."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"It is very stable."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"The solution's support could be better."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"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 needs to be better visualization."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 11 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 12 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 tool that offers great data visualization capabilities that needs to improve its online community page". 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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