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."Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"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."
"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The language support is very good."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"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 solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
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 Oracle OBIEE. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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