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."Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"It could have more options for themes."
"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."
"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 technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"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."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"The user interface is old."
"Error handling."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"The pricing is high."
"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."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 11 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 21 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 "Snapshots are helpful for having a view of the data at a point in time and comparing changes, but it is expensive and far behind other modern tools". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle OBIEE and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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