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 most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"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."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"It is a stable product."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"They should provide more tutorials and include some project files."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"I would like to see more integration."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 129 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, 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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