We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"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."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The language support is very good."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"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."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"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."
"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."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"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."
"The solution's support could be better."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"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 could have more options for themes."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The user interface is old."
"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."
"The pricing is high."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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