I did a comparative study between Qlikview, Cognos TM1, and Microsoft BI several years ago for a one of the world leaders in the pharmaceutical industry. QliKview was more “sexy” than the others products but couldn’t match with all the business requirements, and Microsoft BI was not flexible enough.

Tool evaluation has been done based on the requirement and capability of the tool. TM1 is the best capable tool to satisfy most of our requirements.

I personally have not evaluated other options. However, my company has looked at other solutions.

For most clients, they evaluate other similar software, but in general this software has more flexibility to make changes and adapt their business rules to the tool.