We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense 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 basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"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."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"This tool not only allows for consumption of the data in a visual way, but also allows the user to modify the question to get new answers."
"It is simple to develop, which is good."
"This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers."
"There are a lot of features available in this solution, it has been very easy to use. We have found it to be less complex and user-friendly compared to other solutions we have used."
"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"Placing buttons on my sheets creates a unique user experience and clears up clutter at the same time."
"The reports are better looking than in QlikView."
"End users can adjust their analysis with a few simple clicks."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"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."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"The solution's support could be better."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"The navigation is quite clunky and outdated."
"The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"I wish the product had the ability for slightly more customization. The out-of-the box charts and visualizations are fantastic, but I want to be able to tweak it without having to add outside extensions and widgets."
"There are occasional stability problems, but Qlik support is excellent at correcting anything that arises."
"Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application."
"I'd like to see more end-user-friendly UI designs."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Looker. See our IBM Cognos vs. Qlik Sense report.
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