We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Oracle OBIEE, and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"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."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"I like the scheduling feature. It has an inbuilt scheduler which is very good, and it allows us to create agents, and those agents can be scheduled. It's quite flexible in that respect and goes into our IT infrastructure. The outputs are sent encrypted to various endpoints. Some are internal, and some are our clients, and it's encrypted at a high level. I do find Oracle OBIEE flexible. If there is stuff that's not in your model or schema, it's very flexible to create SQL scripts and create the data you want. It's quite nice to create a dashboard in OBIEE, and that's pretty straightforward in the way you drag and drop everything. You can create sections, and you can add elements to your page. That bit of the interface is relatively straightforward."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology."
"Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"The solution is easy to use and very flexible."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"It has allowed us to manage our staff more effectively and frees up time for our analysts to analyze new problems and opportunities."
"The solution is scalable."
"Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap."
"It connects very simply to data sources."
"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."
"It is extremely clean to view, easy to use, and intuitive to develop with. There are a host of online resources to provide assistance to new users."
"It offers good control. Loading the logs is also a good thing."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies."
"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."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"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."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"Supply chain and finance."
"One of the things that have been difficult with OBIEE during all the time that I've known it is that when something goes wrong, many times, the error messages are not specific, and you've got to spend a lot of time digging and digging and digging before you say, "Oh, okay. I figured out what it was." There should be more detailed error messages or troubleshooting messages."
"In terms of tech support, we have our own technicians. But, we did register for their help. When we register a call, it takes time for them to respond to us."
"The solution is too expensive for small firms."
"From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users."
"There's a lot of redundancy, especially in relation to creating the code."
"The drawback with the tool is that though it is well-created, its users are under-trained to use it."
"I would like to see the data wrangling features enhanced."
"Mostly when it comes to the loading of the data and reload times of the reports, it could be better."
"More options for the layout."
"Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement."
"Ability for the administrator to approve Community Sheets in the QMC and then move them into base sheets."
"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."
"Ultra-customization: It needs no limits on which charts can have x amount of dimensions, y amount of measures, z amount of color expressions, etc."
"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."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."