We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Oracle OBIEE, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."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'."
"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."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"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."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The security is good. For example, we can implement column-level security."
"I like that Oracle OBIEE comes with more options. For example, more options with data security, user security, and other security. It's more complicated than Microsoft, but it gives you more options. They also added the part for machine learning, which is good."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"Oracle OBIEE is a scary and stable product since it is a strong and well-created tool... In short, the solution is stable since it works properly every day."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is interactive reporting because it allows better analysis versus conventional reporting, especially on the data warehouse side."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"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."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"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."
"The solution seems to slow down the servers."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature."
"BI Server"
"It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved."
"Oracle OBIEE is a product that is not easy to implement. The product is also not easy to use."
"It is complex for designing RPD, and it can be simpler. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"There are a lot of aspects of Oracle OBIEE that are exceptionally complicated, make things unnecessarily difficult for everyone who uses it. In terms of the integrations, Oracle needs to improve a little more, but I believe that they have tried to capture all those issues. The issues we are facing in the Oracle OBIEE 12C versions, in the Oracle Analytical Server Center or Analytical Cloud versions, Oracle has managed to overcome the challenges."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"The pricing is high."
"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."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"They could improve the speed."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"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."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
