We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"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."
"It is a stable product."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The solution is fast."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"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 are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"The solution's support could be better."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 131 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while QlikView 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 QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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