We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"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."
"It is a stable product."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"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."
"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'."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The scalability is there."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"You can switch views easily."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"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."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The pricing is high."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"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."
"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."
"The performance could be better."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"Tableau has so many functions, so sometimes it's hard to find the right solution quickly. I have to search multiple menu bars to find the right command."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"The charting is overly complex in comparison with Power BI's"
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"Reports should be downloadable as PDF files."
