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 correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"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."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to actually embed actions, comments, being able to leverage Transaction Services to embed the tool into a business process."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"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."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"It could have more options for themes."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"I prefer the capabilities of a single platform, but it does not always work. We are a huge company. Some areas do not use MicroStrategy, so you have to blend whatever systems they are using together to get the data points that you are looking for."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
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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