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."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"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."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap."
"It is very easy to use, and the Qlik data engine has been able to handle everything we have thrown at it."
"The most valuable features are that Qlik has a very strong ATL available and the capacity to handle large volumes of data."
"Qlik Sense is very stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Even for rare issues, we receive good support from Qlik. It's a very stable solution."
"Qlik Sense is essentially a web-based tool even though it's on-prem – you're working off an HTML page – so it's pretty quick. Your processing speed does not matter because you're using a lot of stuff through the web. That's great because it brings down the cost in regards to hardware."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The product is very stable."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information."
"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."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"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."
"It could have more options for themes."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The high cost of a license makes it hard to scale up on a budget."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"The solution's support could be better."
"As we are a very process-oriented company, we would like to see more extensions maintained from Qlik, because it's a huge budget problem to choose the right one."
"The SaaS offering is being enriched quickly in order to attract new customers to that space and encouraging existing customers to make the switch. The Enterprise solution is therefore lagging behind SaaS in features."
"In my opinion, collaborative development of the Qlik Apps is a bit tricky and difficult in the Qlik Sense Cloud."
"The product could be less expensive."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
"The augmented intelligence features don't work well for the analytical user."
"The reporting solution recently added to the latest Cloud version, since December or January, is not fully developed. The ability to use tabular reporting, like in dashboards, would be a great feature."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
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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