We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"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."
"Faster time to delivery utilizing useful charts and graphs, which allows for on-demand generation of analytical data in tables, graphs, and charts."
"Qlik Sense is essentially a web-based tool even though it's on-prem – you're working off an HTML page – so it's pretty quick. Your processing speed does not matter because you're using a lot of stuff through the web. That's great because it brings down the cost in regards to hardware."
"The product is very stable."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"The most valuable feature of QlikSense is that you can capture the data without modifying it and then perform the ETL (extract, transform, and load) process."
"The product has many great features like easy and fast implementation, flexible data loading, and in-memory processing, but the Set Analysis is what I think is the most valuable. It makes the product very powerful."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"Qlik Sense is much more user-friendly and easier to read then QlikView."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"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."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"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."
"Needs more bookmarking and a data load screen."
"Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal."
"They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness."
"Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great. A basic printing function would also be good. Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice."
"From the initial setup of the product we had some struggles getting connections to some of our databases to function, this indicated that some of the data extract drivers can be improved and addition of some of the older database engines need to be added in Qlik Sense."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Looker. See our IBM Cognos vs. Qlik Sense report.
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