We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"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'."
"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"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."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"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."
"The associative searching and filtering capability is a unique feature among other BI tools, and one does not need to deeply understand the underlying data."
"Qlik Sense helps us increase our organization's customer relationships and brings in more projects."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies."
"We were able to identify easy things, such as when a contract was loaded incorrectly."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"End users can adjust their analysis with a few simple clicks."
"Obviously and considering that Qlik Sense is a data visualization application, the most attractive feature is the fast handling of large amounts of data and the attractive visualization of the same."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors."
"It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"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."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"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."
"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."
"Qlik application automation needs additional work and features."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"Qlik Sense could include additional features for data preparation and integration, making it easier for users to clean, transform, and integrate data from various sources."
"The next version should include more standard integrations."
"Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system."
"It needs continued improvement on its visualizations and content customization."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
