We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can switch views easily."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"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."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"The pricing is high."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."