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."Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"Tech support has been great, very responsive. We usually hear back within a day. We usually email them and that works out perfect. The right person always gets back to us."
"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 is one tool which you can find everything. "
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"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."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"It could have more options for themes."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"It needs better visualizations."
"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"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."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
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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