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."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."
"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."
"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."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"The language support is very good."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"Need improvement towards Visualization."
"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."
"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."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"Error handling."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Better source data connectors."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 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 Oracle OBIEE. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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